• DOI:10.1007/s11229-020-02695-z
Corpus ID: 219176263

How to endorse conciliationism

@article{Fleisher2020HowTE,
  title={How to endorse conciliationism},
  author={Will Fleisher},
  journal={Synthese},
  year={2020},
  pages={1-27}
}

Will Fleisher

Published 2020

Psychology

Synthese

I argue that recognizing a distinct doxastic attitude called endorsement , along with the epistemic norms governing it, solves the self-undermining problem for conciliationism about disagreement. I provide a novel account of how the self-undermining problem works by pointing out the auxiliary assumptions the objection relies on. These assumptions include commitment to certain epistemic principles linking belief in a theory to following prescriptions of that theory. I then argue that we have… CONTINUE READING

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