Resistance to Evidence

by Mona Simion

We have increasingly sophisticated ways of acquiring and communicating knowledge, but efforts to spread this knowledge often encounter resistance to evidence. The phenomenon of resistance to evidence, while subject to thorough investigation in social psychology, is acutely under-theorised in the philosophical literature. Mona Simion's book is concerned with positive epistemology: it argues that we have epistemic obligations to update and form beliefs...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009298526
• ISBN13: 9781009298520
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"