Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

A New Solution to the Problem of Peer Disagreement

    Ruth Weintraub (Tel Aviv)

01 October 2014  |  15:00  |  Seminari de Filosofia UB

Abstract

 In this paper, I defend a new solution to the problem of peer disagreement: how should you respond when you learn that your “epistemic peer” disagrees with you about some issue (tomorrow’s weather, the permissibility of abortion, the existence of universals)? I consider three (familiar) test cases that together impugn every extant theory about peer disagreement. I present my own solution, show that it delivers the intuitive verdict in the test cases and I address some objections.