Original scientific paper

Evidentialism and Trust

Snježana Prijić-Samaržija

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to apply the general idea of evidentialism to the very specific case of testimony and trust characterized as being the procedure of acceptance the other people reports. In the first part, I argue in favour of evidentialism concerning trust, a viewpoint that takes epistemically responsible trust as a matter of evidence. In the second part, I analyze the objections that can be put on this kind of evidentialism by anti-reductionism and nihilism. In the third part, I try to defend evidentialism against this critique and I propose the evidential standard of epistemically responsible trust.

Keywords

trust; testimony; evidentialism; epistemic responsibility; evidence; anti-reductionism; nihilism

Hrčak ID:

18308

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/18308

Publication date:

7.12.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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