naa a22 4500 510789072 CHVBK 20180411083312.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11406-012-9412-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11406-012-9412-3 Licon Jimmy Philosophy Department, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA aut On Merely Modal Epistemic Peers: Challenging the Equal-Weight View [Elektronische Daten] [Jimmy Licon] There is a controversy, within social epistemology, over how to handle disagreement among epistemic peers. Call this the problem of peer disagreement. There is a solution, i.e. the equal-weight view, which says that disagreement among epistemic peers is a reason for each peer to lower the credence they place in their respective positions. However, this solution is susceptible to a serious challenge. Call it the merely modal peers challenge. Throughout parts of modal space, which resemble the actual world almost completely, there are hordes of epistemic peers, who disagree with almost any arbitrarily chosen belief had by residents of the actual world. Further, the mere modality of these peers is not itself an epistemic difference-maker. Thus, on the equal-weight view, we should significantly lower the credence we place in most of our beliefs. Surely, this is seriously mistaken. Thus, there are serious considerations that cut against the equal-weight view. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2012 Epistemic peers nationallicence Equal-weight view nationallicence Stead-fast view nationallicence Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/3(2013-09-01), 809-823 0048-3893 41:3<809 2013 41 11406 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-012-9412-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-012-9412-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Licon Jimmy Philosophy Department, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/3(2013-09-01), 809-823 0048-3893 41:3<809 2013 41 11406 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer