ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that epistemic basing is a matter of ‘causation caused by taking’ (CCT) and the taking must be a belief about evidential support. It’s natural to think that the deviancy in causation has to do with how the causal path proceeds. In both cases, the causation is not direct but mediated through several stages of causation. The thought that deviant causation must have to do with how the causal path proceeds also underlies the ‘causal-manifestation theory’ of basing recently proposed by John Turri. In contrast, Joint Causation cannot capture this distinction because it doesn’t explain how the putative bases and the taking on the evidential relation play different causal roles in leading to belief. Joint Causation is indeed simpler than CCT. The chapter provides some solutions to the problem in a way that would motivate my causal theory CCT.
