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What is reasonable doubt? For philosophical studies special issue on Sosa’s ‘epistemic explanations’

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This paper develops and defends novel accounts of accurate and reasonable doubt. We take a cue from Sosa's telic epistemic normative picture to argue that one’s degree of doubt that p is accurate just in case it matches the level of veritic risk involved in believing that p. In turn, on this account, reasonable doubt is doubt that is generated by a properly functioning cognitive capacity with the function of encoding veritic risk
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10.1007/s11098-024-02247-y

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0000-0002-3243-1337
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University of Oxford
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0000-0001-7289-0872


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Springer
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Philosophical Studies More from this journal
Publication date:
2024-11-08
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1573-0883
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0031-8116


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2378704
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pubs:2378704
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W4404183138
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2026-02-20
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