Defeasibility in Epistemology

Knoks, Aleks

doi:10.13016/wueu-csc6

2020

DOI: 10.13016/wueu-csc6

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Defeasibility in Epistemology

Aleks Knoks¹

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Conciliatory views, higher-order disagreements, and defeasible logic

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2022

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Conciliatory views of disagreement say, roughly, that it's rational for you to become less confident in your take on an issue in case you find out that an epistemic peer's take on it is the opposite. Their intuitive appeal notwithstanding, there are wellknown worries about the behavior of conciliatory views in scenarios involving higherorder disagreements, which include disagreements over these views themselves and disagreements over the peer status of alleged epistemic peers. This paper does two things. First, it explains how the core idea behind conciliatory views can be expressed in a defeasible logic framework. The result is a formal model that's particularly useful for thinking about the behavior of conciliatory views in cases involving higher-order disagreements. And second, the paper uses this model to resolve three paradoxes associated with disagreements over epistemic peerhood.

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Conciliatory views, higher-order disagreements, and defeasible logic

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