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  • Chapter 4 - Permissible Suspension and Evidence Resistance

  • from Part I - The Epistemology and Psychology of Resistance to Evidence
  • Mona Simion, University of Glasgow
  • Book:
    Resistance to Evidence
    Published online:
    16 February 2024
    Print publication:
    15 February 2024, pp 48-67
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    This chapter surveys recent accounts of the epistemic permissibility of suspended judgement in an attempt to thereby identify the normative resources required for explaining the epistemically problematic nature of evidence resistance. Since paradigmatic cases of evidence resistance involve belief suspension on propositions that are well supported by evidence, such as vaccine safety and climate change, the literature on permissible suspension seems to be a straightforward starting point for my investigation: after all, any plausible view of permissible suspension will have to predict epistemic impermissibility in these paradigmatic resistance cases. I look at three extant accounts of permissible suspension – a simple knowledge-based account, a virtue-based account, and a respect-based account – and argue that they fail to provide the needed resources for this project. Further on, the chapter identifies the source of the said difficulties and gestures towards a better way forward.