Must Beliefs and Evidence Agree?: A Debate

Should our beliefs be proportioned to our evidence? Are we doing something wrong in believing with little or no evidence? And may our beliefs be based partly or wholly on moral considerations? These questions are harder than you think.

Scott Stapleford is Professor of Philosophy at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, Canada. His recent publications include: Logic Works: A Rigorous Introduction to Formal Logic (with Lorne Falkenstein and Molly Kao, 2022), Hume’s Enquiry: Expanded and Explained (with Tyron Goldschmidt, 2021), and six edited collections.

Elizabeth Jackson is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University, and her research is in epistemology and philosophy of religion. She’s published in journals such as Mind, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and Philosophical Studies.