Belkoniene, Miloud (2024) Explanationism, circularity and non-evaluative grounding. Grazer Philosophische Studien: International Journal for Analytic Philosophy, 101 (1). pp. 28-46. ISSN 0165-9227
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The article examines two challenges raised by Steup for explanationist accounts of evidential fit. The first challenge targets the notion of available explanation, while the second challenge claims that explanatory goodness is determined by evidential fit rather than the other way around.AI Topics:
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The present article examines two important challenges raised by Steup for explanationist accounts of evidential fit. The first challenge targets the notion of available explanation which is key to any explanationist account of evidential fit. According to Steup, any plausible construal of the notion of available explanation already presupposes the notion of evidential fit. In response to that challenge, an alternative conception of what it takes for an explanation to be available to a subject is offered and shown to be able to shed better light on the specific role played by that notion in explanationist accounts of evidential fit. The second challenge relies on the claim that the explanatory goodness of competing explanations is determined by their evidential fit, rather than the other way around. In response to that challenge, it is argued that explanationists can concede that the relative explanatory goodness of an explanation is in part dependent on that explanation’s likeliness on the overall evidence possessed by the subject without thereby conceding that Explanationism about justification is circular.
Title | Explanationism, circularity and non-evaluative grounding |
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Creators | Belkoniene, Miloud |
Identification Number | 10.1163/18756735-00000212 |
Date | May 2024 |
Divisions | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > Philosophy |
Publisher | Brill |
Additional Information | This research was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant 100012M_200737). |
URI | https://pub.demo35.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/274 |
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Item Type | Article |
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Depositing User | Unnamed user with email ejo1f20@soton.ac.uk |
Date Deposited | 11 Jun 2025 16:36 |
Revision | 30 |
Last Modified | 12 Jun 2025 10:50 |
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