Unknown peers


Weber, Marc Andree



DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2023.2263711
URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09672...
Additional URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374573380...
Document Type: Article
Year of publication: 2023
The title of a journal, publication series: International Journal of Philosophical Studies : IJPS
Volume: 31
Issue number: 3
Page range: 382-401
Place of publication: Abingdon ; London
Publishing house: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
ISSN: 0967-2559 , 1466-4542
Publication language: English
Institution: School of Humanities > Philosophie I (Freitag 2018-)
Subject: 100 Philosophy
Keywords (English): Epistemology, Evidence, Disagreement, Peers, Equal Weight View, Justification
Abstract: Unknown peers create a problem for those epistemologists who argue that we should be conciliatory in cases of peer disagreement. The standard interpretation of 'being conciliatory' has it that we should revise our opinions concerning a specific subject matter whenever we encounter someone who is as competent and well informed as we are concerning this subject matter (and thus is our peer) and holds a different opinion. As a consequence, peers whom we have never encountered and who are hence unknown to us are not taken into account. This, however, appears odd; not only because it is an accidental matter which peers we happen to encounter and which not, but also because it would allow people to deliberately isolate themselves from any kind of intellectual exchange on the topic under consideration. The paper argues that we should take the problem of unknown peers seriously, and that disregarding the problem is an instance of the more general mistake of assuming that evidential quality and justified believability can be dealt with separately. Moreover, a solution to the problem of unknown peers is suggested.




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