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A HIGHER-ORDER APPROACH TO DISAGREEMENT

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Author	Rasmussen, Mattias Skipper Steglich-Petersen, Asbjørn Bjerring, Jens Christian
Copyright Year	2017
Description	While many philosophers have agreed that evidence of disagreement is a kind of higher-order evidence, this has not yet resulted in formally precise higher-order approaches to the problem of disagreement. In this paper, we outline a simple formal framework for determining the epistemic significance of a body of higher-order evidence, and use this framework to motivate a novel interpretation of the popular “equal weight view” of peer disagreement – we call it the Variably Equal Weight View (VEW). We show that VEW differs from the standard Split the Difference (SD) interpretation of the equal weight view in almost all cases of peer disagreement, and use our formal framework to explain why SD has seemed attractive but is in fact misguided. A desirable feature of VEW, we argue, is that it gives rise to plausible instances of synergy – an effect whereby the parties to a disagreement should become more (or less) confident in the disputed proposition than any of them were prior to disagreement. Lastly, we show how VEW may be generalized to cases of non-peer disagreement.
Related Links	https://pure.au.dk/ws/files/134136493/A_Higher_Order_Approach_to_Disagreement_Accepted_manuscript_2018.pdf https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/01F74C522DC1E8656484D1203C27C762/S1742360016000435a.pdf/div-class-title-a-higher-order-approach-to-disagreement-div.pdf
ISSN	17423600
e-ISSN	17500117
DOI	10.1017/epi.2016.43
Journal	Episteme
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	15
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2018-03-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Episteme History and Philosophy of Science Higher Order Peer Disagreement Equal Weight View
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	History and Philosophy of Science

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