What is the problem of coherence and truth?

Journal of Philosophy

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 246-272

  Olsson, Erik J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

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EID: 32144457607     PISSN: 0022362X     EISSN: 19398549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3655648     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. An Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation (La Salle: Open Court, 1946);hereafter AKV.
2. See Peter Klein and Ted A. Warfield, "What Price Coherence?"Analysis, LIV, 3 (July 1994): 129-32,
3. and "No Help For the Coherentist," Analysis, LVI, 2 (April1996): 118-21;
4. Trenton Merricks, "On Behalf of the Coherentist," Analysis, LV,4 (October 1995): 306-09;
5. Charles B. Cross, "Coherence and Truth Conducive Justification," Analysis, LIX, 3 (July 1999): 186-93;
6. and Tomoji Shogenji, "Is Coherence Truth-Conducive?" Analysis, LIX, 4 (October 1999): 338-45.
7. See also Luc Bovens and Olsson, "Coherentism, Reliability and Bayesian Networks," Mind, CIX (October 2000): 685-719,
8. and my "Why Coherence Is Not Truth-Conducive," Analysis, LXI, 3(July 2001): 236-41.
9. "What Price Coherence?" p. 129.
10. The Structure of Empirical Knowledge (Cambridge: Harvard, 1985).
11. For a prominent example, see Isaac Levi, The Fixation of Belief and Its Undoing (New York: Cambridge, 1991).
12. See Klein and Warfield, "What Price Coherence?" p. 130;
13. The case of witnesses copying other witnesses' statements is discussed in Alvin Goldman, "Experts: Which Ones Should You Trust?" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LXIII, 1 (July 2001): 85-110. He shows, using Bayesian reasoning, that the addition of such witnesses has no effect on theprobability of what is being said.
14. For a standard text on Bayesian networks, see Judea Pearl, Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems (San Francisco: Kaufmann, 1988).