Disagreement and the Burdens of Judgment

@inproceedings{Kelly2013DisagreementAT,
  title={Disagreement and the Burdens of Judgment},
  author={Thomas Kelly},
  year={2013}
}
  • T. Kelly
  • Published 25 April 2013
  • Psychology
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From Independence to Conciliationism: An Obituary

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A Faithful Response to Disagreement

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XI—Literature and Disagreement

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Disagreement and the division of epistemic labor

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It is argued that the epistemic benefits that result from the deliberative division of epistemic labor can provide epistemic reason to maintain confidence in cases of disagreement and constitutes a distinct kind of epistem dependence.

Disagreement and Intellectual Scepticism

Several philosophers have recently argued that disagreement with others undermines or precludes epistemic justification for our opinions about controversial issues (e.g. political, religious, and…

Resolving Peer Disagreements Through Imprecise Probabilities

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The notion of a set-based credal judgment to frame and address a range of subtle issues that arise in peer disagreements is introduced, and the theory of imprecise probability allows one to satisfy both principles.

Steadfast Views of Disagreement are Incoherent

Abstract In this paper, I argue that Steadfast Views of peer disagreement - a family of views according to which standing firm in the face of peer disagreement can be rationally permissible are…

Making sense of non-factual disagreement in science.

13 Dilemmas, Disagreement, and Dualism

What should we do when someone who is smart and well-informed disagrees with us? Should we change our opinion, or hold fast to our previous viewpoint? This question has divided epistemologists, and…
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