Disagreement and Epistemic Utility-Based Compromise

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[Julia Staffel]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2015
Enthalten in:
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 44/3(2015-06-01), 273-286
Format:
Artikel (online)
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520 3 |a Epistemic utility theory seeks to establish epistemic norms by combining principles from decision theory and social choice theory with ways of determining the epistemic utility of agents' attitudes. Recently, Moss (Mind, 120(480), 1053-69, 2011) has applied this strategy to the problem of finding epistemic compromises between disagreeing agents. She shows that the norm "form compromises by maximizing average expected epistemic utility”, when applied to agents who share the same proper epistemic utility function, yields the result that agents must form compromises by splitting the difference between their credence functions. However, this "split the difference” norm is in conflict with conditionalization, since applications of the two norms don't commute. A common response in the literature seems to be to abandon the procedure of splitting the difference in favor of compromise strategies that avoid non-commutativity. This would also entail abandoning Moss' norm. I explore whether a different response is feasible. If agents can use epistemic utility-based considerations to agree on an order in which they will apply the two norms, they might be able to avoid diachronic incoherence. I show that this response can't save Moss' norm, because the agreements concerning the order of compromising and updating it generates are not stable over time, and hence cannot avoid diachronic incoherence. I also show that a variant of Moss' norm, which requires that the weights given to each agent's epistemic utility change in a way that ensures commutativity, cannot be justified on epistemological grounds. 
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