Rational belief, epistemic possibility, and the a priori

Claire Field1
1COGITO, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

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AbstractIn this paper, I discuss Whiting’s (2021) account of rational belief and discuss some unresolved issues arising from its reliance on epistemic possibility and, by extension, perspective-relative aprioricity.

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