ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 focuses on the notion of evidence which is central to the elucidation of the notions of justification and knowledge put forward in Chapters 1, 2, and 5. It is argued that both internal and external facts can constitute the evidence possessed by a subject for believing certain claims about the world and the question of the access a subject has to her evidence is examined. Following philosophers such as Pritchard, it is argued that, in epistemically favorable circumstances, a subject has a reflective access to her own evidence and a specific construal of that access which, it is shown, avoids common difficulties faced by Epistemological Disjunctivism is put forward. The chapter then turns to the question of what it takes for something to be part of a subject's evidence and the view that evidence is constituted by the facts—both internal and external—that are manifest to a subject is defended. Finally, Chapter 6 builds on the examination of the notion of evidence to offer a general picture of the connections between justification, understanding, and knowledge. In particular, it is shown to what extent justification can be conceived of as being directed at gaining an explanatory understanding of the facts that are manifest to a subject and how the proposed elucidation of the notion of knowledge is connected to that dimension of justification.
