Higher-Order Evidence and Calibrationism

The Higher-Order Evidence Debate Concerns How Higher-Order Evidence Affects The Rationality Of Our First-Order Beliefs. This Element Has Two Parts. The First Part (Sections 1 And 2) Provides A Critical Overview Of The Literature Aiming To Explain Why The Higher-Order Evidence Debate Is Interesting And Important. The Second Part (Sections 3 To 6) Defends Calibrationism The View That We Should Respond To Higher-Order Evidence By Aligning Our Credences To Our Reliability Degree. The Author First Discusses The Traditional Version Of Calibrationism And Explains Its Main Difficulties Before Proposing A New Version Of Calibrationism Called ''Evidence-Discounting Calibrationism.'' The Element Argues That This New Version Is Independently Plausible And That It Can Avoid The Difficulties Faced By The Traditional Version.