Peer Disagreement, Testimony, and Personal Justification

In this paper, I consider the problem of peer disagreement: What should one do in a case in which one who is an epistemic peer disagrees with one? One of the flaws with what has come to be known as the “equal weight view” is that it misconceives the asymmetry between the peer’s opinion and one’s own...

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Main Author: Nicholas D. Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Athens Institute for Education and Research 2015-07-01
Series:Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts
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Online Access:http://www.athensjournals.gr/humanities/2015-2-3-1-Smith.pdf