Elusive Externalism

Replies to Feldman, Greco, and Malmgren

“…Bernard Salow (2017) suggests that contextualism can mitigate the counterintuitive consequences of this view. Although there are counterexamples to negative luminosity, perhaps they are “elusive” in the sense that you cannot truly say (or think) that you're in such a case.…”

(Almost) all evidence is higher-order evidence

“…One can resist this argument only by defending a conception of evidence for which both positive introspection and negative introspection typically hold-that if a proposition is (not) part of your evidence, then your evidence includes the fact that it's (not) part of your evidence. We think the prospects for such a conception of evidence are dim (but see Salow, 2019). Second, you typically ought to be uncertain about what your evidence supports.…”

Updating incoherent credences ‐ Extending the Dutch strategy argument for conditionalization

“…(1b) Alternatively, we might employ a contextualist (or relativist/expressivist) interpretation of what counts as the agent's evidence. Salow (2019), picking up a similar idea in Greco (2017), offers a view on which the referent of the term "evidence" can never fail to satisfy certain internalist principles in a given context. Both (1a) and (1b) are compatible with the approach in this paper.…”