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Peer disagreement under multiple epistemic systems

Rogier De Langhe

pp. 2547-2556

Abstract

In a situation of peer disagreement, peers are usually assumed to share the same evidence. However they might not share the same evidence for the epistemic system used to process the evidence. This synchronic complication of the peer disagreement debate suggested by Goldman (In Feldman R, Warfield T (eds) (2010) Disagreement. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 187–215) is elaborated diachronically by use of a simulation. The Hegselmann–Krause model is extended to multiple epistemic systems and used to investigate the role of consensus and difference splitting in peer disagreement. I find that the very possibility of multiple epistemic systems downgrades the epistemic value of consensus and makes difference splitting a suboptimal strategy.

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Published in:

Moretti Luca, Pedersen Nikolaj Yang Lee Linding (2013) Epistemic transmission and interaction. Synthese 190 (13).

Pages: 2547-2556

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-012-0149-0

Full citation:

De Langhe Rogier (2013) „Peer disagreement under multiple epistemic systems“. Synthese 190 (13), 2547–2556.