What one can know depends on one’s evidence. Good scientific theories are supported by evidence. Our experiences provide us with evidence. Any sort of inquiry involves the seeking of evidence. It is irrational to believe contrary to your evidence. For these reasons and more, evidence is one of the most fundamental notions in the field of epistemology and is emerging as a crucial topic across academic disciplines. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject and is the first major volume of its kind. Comprising forty chapters by an international team of contributors the handbook is divided into six clear parts: The Nature of Evidence Evidence and Probability The Social Epistemology of Evidence Sources of Evidence Evidence and Justification Evidence in the Disciplines The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of science and epistemology, and will also be of interest to those in related disciplines across the humanities and social sciences, such as law, religion, and history.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Maria Lasonen-Aarnio and Clayton Littlejohn Part 1: The Nature of Evidence 1. Experience as Evidence Chris Tucker 2. E = K, but What About R? Timothy Williamson 3. Epistemological Disjunctivism and Evidence Duncan Pritchard 4. Evidential Internalism and Evidential Externalism Giada Fratantonio 5. The Evidential Support Relation of Evidentialism T. Ryan Byerly 6. How Can "Evidence" Be Normative? Ralph Wedgwood Part 2: Evidence and Probability 7. Varieties of Measure of Evidential Support Peter Brössel 8. Positive Relevance Peter Achinstein 9. The Paradoxes of Confirmation Jan Sprenger 10. Good Predictions and Bad Accommodations Eric Christian Barnes 11. Bayesian Norms and Non-Ideal Agents Julia Staffel 12. The Value of Evidence Bernhard Salow 13. Sleeping Beauty’s Evidence Jeffrey Sanford Russell 14. Higher-Order Evidence Kevin Dorst Part 3: The Social Epistemology of Evidence 15. Evidence and Power: Feminist Approaches to Evidence Kristen Intemann 16. Evidence, Relativism and Progress in Feminist Standpoint Theory Natalie Ashton 17. Epistemic Injustice in Collecting and Appraising Evidence David Schraub and Joel Sati 18. Prejudiced Belief: Evidential Considerations Endre Begby 19. Nick Hughes: Evidence and Bias 20. Disagreement and Higher-Order Evidence Jonathan Matheson Part 4: Sources of Evidence 21. Intuitions as Evidence: An Introduction Marc A. Moffett 22. The Evidence in Perception Ali Hasan 23. Testimony and Evidence Nick Leonard 24. Introspection and Evidence Alex Byrne 25. Explanation and Evidence Kevin McCain and Ted Poston Part 5: Evidence and Justification 26. Prospects for Evidentialism Bob Beddor 27. Permissivism, Underdetermination, and Evidence Elisabeth Jackson and Greta LaFore 28. Moral Encroachment and Evidence Jessica Brown 29. Evidence and Virtue (and Beyond) Kurt Sylvan 30. Propositional Justification and Doxastic Justification Paul Silva Jr. and Luis R.G. Oliveira 31. Evidence and Epistemic Reasons Errol Lord 32. Fallibilism and a Guarantee of Truth Charity Anderson 33. Evidence and Inductive Inference Nevin Climenhaga Part 6: Evidence in the Disciplines 34. Legal Evidence and Knowledge Georgi Gardiner 35. Evidence in Logic Ben Martin and Ole Thomassen Hjortland 36. Evidence: From Science to Policy Eleonora Montuschi 37. Theory and Evidence in Economics Julian Reiss 38. Evidence Based Medicine and Evidence Based Public Health Benjamin Smart 39. Evidence in Classical Statistics Samuel C. Fletcher and Conor Mayo-Wilson 40. Scientific Evidence Alexander Bird. Index