caa a22 4500 605539022 CHVBK 20210128100905.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10992-014-9318-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10992-014-9318-6 Staffel Julia Department of Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, 63130-4899, St. Louis, MO, USA aut Disagreement and Epistemic Utility-Based Compromise [Elektronische Daten] [Julia Staffel] 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. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Epistemic utility nationallicence Judgment aggregation nationallicence Disagreement nationallicence Conditionalization nationallicence Linear averaging nationallicence Scoring rule nationallicence Journal of Philosophical Logic Springer Netherlands 44/3(2015-06-01), 273-286 0022-3611 44:3<273 2015 44 10992 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-014-9318-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-014-9318-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Staffel Julia Department of Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, 63130-4899, St. Louis, MO, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Philosophical Logic Springer Netherlands 44/3(2015-06-01), 273-286 0022-3611 44:3<273 2015 44 10992