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Bias Attributions and the Epistemology of Disagreement
2022AbstractA common response to disagreement is to discount the other person’s opinion on the grounds that they are or might be biased. This chapter explores the propriety of such reasoning, with special attention to the way that it interacts with the bias blind spot.
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The epistemology of experts‟ disagreement in Afroca
African and Diaspora Discourse, 2022Disagreement among experts in the pursuit of knowledge or truth is a phenomenon that continues to rock the boat of human survival. The reality of disagreement among experts is usually explained from two perspectives: on the one hand is the claim that knowledge is dynamic in nature.
A.A. Ibrahim, S.O. Ishaya, G.E. Udoh
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Law and the Epistemology of Disagreement
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017This Article identifies an anomalous discrepancy between law and epistemology and proposes a way to fix it. Our legal system relies on decisions of multimember tribunals, which include juries, state and federal appellate courts and supreme courts. Members of those tribunals often disagree with each other on matters of fact.
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Introduction to the Epistemology of Disagreement
2019Part of the recent explosion in the literature on the epistemology of disagreement has generally confined itself to the following problem: Suppose that after an agent comes to believe proposition P she finds out that there is an epistemic peer—someone of equal intelligence and ability—who has evaluated the same body of evidence and come to believe not ...
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The Epistemology of Political Disagreement
2017After arguing for the equal epistemic authority of the citizens of sufficiently deliberative democracies in the preceding chapter, the present chapter sets out to answer the question of how citizens ought to react to their political disagreements with other citizens whom they regard as equal epistemic authorities on justice.
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Contingency Anxiety and the Epistemology of Disagreement
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2015AbstractUpon discovering that certain beliefs we hold are contingent on arbitrary features of our background, we often feel uneasy. I defend the proposal that if such cases ofcontingency anxietyinvolve defeaters, this is because of the epistemic significance of disagreement. I note two hurdles to our accepting thisDisagreement Hypothesis. Firstly, some
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Bayesian Epistemology Of Disagreement
2014Ziel dieser Masterarbeit ist es, mit der Methodik der „Bayesian Epistemology“ (BE) ein neues Licht auf die Debatte der „Epistemology of Disagreement“ (EoD) zu werfen. Zwei Positionen stehen dabei im Fokus, der „Equal Weight View“ (EWV) und der „Total Evidence View“ (TEV).
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‘PARTIAL DEFEATERS’ AND THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF DISAGREEMENT
The Philosophical Quarterly, 2010Can known disagreement with our epistemic peers undermine or defeat the justification our beliefs enjoy? Much of the current literature argues for one of two extreme positions on this topic, either that the justification of each person's belief is (fully) defeated by the awareness of disagreement, or that no belief is defeated by this awareness.
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