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Comments on Richard Pettigrew's Accuracy and the Laws of Credence
Author(s) -
Kotzen Matthew
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
philosophy and phenomenological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1933-1592
pISSN - 0031-8205
DOI - 10.1111/phpr.12504
Subject(s) - credence , chapel , citation , law , philosophy , computer science , political science , theology , machine learning
Accuracy and the Laws of Credence is required reading for anyone interested in the foundations of epistemology. It is that rare philosophical work which serves both as a stunningly clear overview of a topic and as a cutting-edge contribution to that topic. I can’t possibly address all of the interesting and philosophically rich components of Accuracy and the Laws of Credence here, so I will largely restrict my attention to pieces of Parts I, II, and III of the book, though I’ll have some more general things to say about Pettigrew’s accuracy-only approach to epistemology toward the end.