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Consensual Decision-Making Among Epistemic Peers [PDF]

open access: yesEpisteme, 2009
ABSTRACTThis paper focuses on the question of how to resolve disagreement and uses the Lehrer-Wagner model as a formal tool for investigating consensual decision-making. The main result consists in a general definition of when agents treat each other as epistemic peers (Kelly 2005; Elga 2007), and a theorem vindicating the “equal weight view” to ...
Hartmann, Stephan   +2 more
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Dealing With Disagreement: Distinguishing Two Types of Epistemic Peers [PDF]

open access: yesSpontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science, 2010
Epistemologists have recently debated how we should respond to apparent cases of rational disagreement. Is it possible for two people to disagree and have both people still be rational? Those involved in this debate make use of the idea of epistemic peers. Two people are epistemic peers if they share the same knowledge of a given topic and have similar
Wald, Benjamin Elliott
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Epistemic pluralism, epistemic relativism and ‘hinge’ epistemology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
According to Paul Boghossian (2006, 73) a core tenet of epistemic relativism is what he calls epistemic pluralism, according to which (i) ‘there are many fundamentally different, genuinely alternative epistemic systems’, but (ii) ‘no facts by virtue of ...
Carter, J. Adam
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Against the Equal Weight View in the Epistemology of Disagreement [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت و فلسفه, 2018
In this paper I propose an argument against the conciliatory view in peer disagreement. One of the most important grounds for conciliatory views is the assumption that the epistemic situation in peer disagreement between two peers is symmetri cal ...
امید کریم زاده
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Epistemic Norms, A Priority, and Self-Knowledge [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This thesis is primarily focussed on developing a novel characterisation of the distinction between a priori and a posteriori justification. My working hypothesis is that we can make a surprising amount of progress in this field by paying attention to ...
Flockemann, Richard
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Combining Intra- and Interindividual Approaches in Epistemic Beliefs Research

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
We combined inter- and intraindividual approaches to investigate university students’ biology- and psychology-specific specific epistemic beliefs (beliefs about the nature and structure of knowledge).
Tom Rosman, Eva Seifried, Samuel Merk
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Clickbait or conspiracy? How Twitter users address the epistemic uncertainty of a controversial preprint

open access: yesBig Data & Society, 2023
Many scientists share preprints on social media platforms to gain attention from academic peers, policy-makers, and journalists. In this study we shed light on an unintended but highly consequential effect of sharing preprints: Their contribution to ...
Mareike Bauer   +3 more
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Epistemic Peer Disagreement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This essay presents and critically assesses some of the main positions in the peer disagreement debates and offers a new position based on a pluralistic understanding of epistemic rationality according to which questions concerning internal rationality should be kept distinct from questions concerning external rationality.
Ferrari Filippo, Pedersen N. J. L. L.
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Desacuerdos entre Pares Epistémicos. El Número Importa.

open access: yesPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2016
The debate over the epistemology of desagreement is full of disagreements. However, both conciliationists and steadfasts agree on the following thesis: once I have taken into account the disagreement with an epistemic peer P1, that is, once I have ...
Nicolás Francisco Lo Guercio
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Conciliationist Approach to the Challenge of Religious Disagreement [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2018
Conciliationists believe that after the emergence of disagreement between epistemic peers, one cannot reasonably be committed to her previous belief or her degree of confidence in that.
Ghazaleh Hojjati
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