Epistemic conservatism

Epistemic conservatism is a view in epistemology about the structure of reasons or justification for belief. While there are various forms, epistemic conservatism is generally the view that a person's believing some claim is a reason in support of the claim, at least on the face of it. [See Richard Fumerton (2007), p. 63.] Others formulate epistemic conservatism as the view that one is, to some degree, justified in believing something simply because one believes it. [See David Christensen (1994), p. 69.]

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References and further reading

* Christensen, David. (1994). "Conservatism in Epistemology", "Noûs", Vol. 28, No. 1 (Mar.), pp. 69-89.
* Fumerton, Richard. (2007). "Epistemic Conservatism: Theft or Honest Toil?", "Oxford Studies in Epistemology: Vol. 2", ed. by Tamar Gendler, Tamar Szabo Gendler, and John Hawthorne. Oxford University Press. ISBN 019923706