Peer Disagreement: A Call for the Revision of Prior Probabilities

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Abstract

The current debate about peer disagreement has so far mainly focused on the question of whether peer disagreements provide genuine counterevidence to which we should respond by revising our credences. By contrast, comparatively little attention has been devoted to the question by which process, if any, such revision should be brought about. The standard assumption is that we update our credences by conditionalizing on the evidence that peer disagreements provide. In this paper, we argue that non-dogmatist views have good reasons to reject conditionalization. Instead, peer disagreements should be understood to call for a revision of our prior conditional probabilities: rather than merely adding to our original evidence, they pose a challenge to the thought that we have properly assessed the probative force of our original evidence.

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Original languageGerman
Pages (from-to)551-586
Number of pages35
JournalDialectica : international journal of philosophy and official organ of the ESAP ; quarterly journal / supported by the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2015
Peer-reviewedYes

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Scopus 84953228680
ORCID /0000-0002-9962-2074/work/142234598

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