How should you take into account the opinions of an advisor? When you completely defer to the advisor's judgment (the manner in which she responds to her evidence), then you should treat the advisor as a guru. Roughly, that means you should believe what you expect she would believe, if supplied with your extra evidence. When the advisor is your own future self, the resulting principle amounts to a version of the Reflection Principle---a version amended to handle cases of information loss. When you count an advisor as an epistemic peer, you should give her conclusions the same weight as your own. Denying that view---call it the ``equal weight view''---leads to absurdity: the absurdity that you could reasonably come to believe yourself to be ...
This is a short essay that presents what I take to be the main questions regarding the epistemology ...
In expert knowledge elicitation (EKE) for forecasting, the perceived credibility of an expert is lik...
In expert knowledge elicitation (EKE) for forecasting, the perceived credibility of an expert is lik...
How should you take into account the opinions of an advisor? When you completely defer to the adviso...
How should you take into account the opinions of an advisor? When you completely defer to the adviso...
There are many things—call them ‘experts’—that you should defer to in forming your opinions. The tro...
What sort of doxastic response is rational to learning that one disagrees with an epistemic peer who...
When one encounters disagreement about the truth of a factual claim from a trusted advisor who has a...
The main aim of this paper is to propose that reflection is a performance that has epistemic value. ...
Some philosophers believe that when epistemic peers disagree, each has an obligation to accord the o...
Principles of expert deference say that you should align your credences with those of an expert. Th...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Department of Political Science, 2018.Experts often disagr...
Much advice taking research investigates whether advice weighting accords to normative principles fo...
The epistemology of disagreement concerns the normative question of how you ought to revise your bel...
We develop a reputational cheap talk model where the principal can cancel an action initially starte...
This is a short essay that presents what I take to be the main questions regarding the epistemology ...
In expert knowledge elicitation (EKE) for forecasting, the perceived credibility of an expert is lik...
In expert knowledge elicitation (EKE) for forecasting, the perceived credibility of an expert is lik...
How should you take into account the opinions of an advisor? When you completely defer to the adviso...
How should you take into account the opinions of an advisor? When you completely defer to the adviso...
There are many things—call them ‘experts’—that you should defer to in forming your opinions. The tro...
What sort of doxastic response is rational to learning that one disagrees with an epistemic peer who...
When one encounters disagreement about the truth of a factual claim from a trusted advisor who has a...
The main aim of this paper is to propose that reflection is a performance that has epistemic value. ...
Some philosophers believe that when epistemic peers disagree, each has an obligation to accord the o...
Principles of expert deference say that you should align your credences with those of an expert. Th...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Department of Political Science, 2018.Experts often disagr...
Much advice taking research investigates whether advice weighting accords to normative principles fo...
The epistemology of disagreement concerns the normative question of how you ought to revise your bel...
We develop a reputational cheap talk model where the principal can cancel an action initially starte...
This is a short essay that presents what I take to be the main questions regarding the epistemology ...
In expert knowledge elicitation (EKE) for forecasting, the perceived credibility of an expert is lik...
In expert knowledge elicitation (EKE) for forecasting, the perceived credibility of an expert is lik...