Vol. 1 No. 2 (2017)
Articles

On Persistent Disagreement in Cases Concerning the Misattribution of Epistemic Peerhood

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  • Sebastian Sierant

Published 2017-09-30

Keywords

  • Epistemology,
  • Persistent Disagreement,
  • Duning-Kruger Effect,
  • Resolute Stance

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Abstract

By reference to the work of Justin Kruger and David Dunning on individual incompetence, I will contend: that (a) persistent disagreement between epistemic peers is a lesser issue than that of disagreement between “epistemic rivals”; that (b) Catherine Elgin’s claim that belief is not a voluntary phenomenon is damaging to our attempts at solving the problem of persistent disagreement; and that (c) resoluteness in one’s beliefs is, perhaps, the only effective strategy for dealing with cases of persistent disagreement between “epistemic rivals”.

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