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SWIP-Analytic: Arianna Falbo, 2016 Essay Prize Winner Presentation

April 25, 2016 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

 

2016 SWIP-Analytic Essay Prize Winner Presentation
Monday, April 25, 2016

Arianna Falbo
Simon Fraser University
“Why Two (or more) Belief-Dependent Peers are Better Than One”

1:00-3:00 PM, Room 202
NYU Philosophy Department
5 Washington Place, NYC
Joint NYU Department Tea & SWIP-Analytic Reception to Follow

**Attendees are encouraged to read the prize-winning paper in advance of the presentation. Email swipanalytic@gmail.com to obtain a copy of the paper.**

ABSTRACT: The following principle is widely assumed in the literature surrounding the epistemology of peer disagreement: When S disagrees with a group of epistemic peers P1, P2, P3. . . Pn concerning the truth of p, if S has already taken into account the dissent of P1, then S’s disagreement with P2, P3. . . Pn does not need to be accounted for if the beliefs of these subsequent dissenters are not independent of P1’s belief that p. Hence, S can be rationally excused from considering these subsequent dissenters. I call this assumption ‘Belief-Dependence Excusal’ and argue that it is false. This is because the epistemic perspective of a peer can itself be evidentially significant irrespective of whether or not her beliefs are independent of other dissenters that I have already rationally accounted for. I focus on testimonial belief-dependence as it applies to a group of dissenters whose beliefs are all (at least partly) justified by the same report.

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Date:
April 25, 2016
Time:
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Venue

NYU Philosophy Room 202
5 Washington Place
New York, NY United States
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