Any view that prescribes conciliation in at least some cases can in principle be turned against itself when there is disagreement about that view among epistemically well-positioned individuals
A view or rule that contradicts or undermines itself when applied in certain situations.
epistemically well-positioned(Used to identify whose disagreement is epistemically significant under peer-disagreement views)
An individual who has the relevant competence, access to evidence, and reasoning ability to form a reliable judgment on a given question
epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
in principle(as used in philosophical reasoning)
Theoretically or according to the basic rules or logic, even if it might not work out in practice.
A prominent objection to the Equal Weight View and other views that prescribe doxastic conciliation is that such views are self-defeating. For expressions of this objection, see Elga 2010, Frances 2010, O’Connor 1999, Plantinga 2000a and 2000b, Taliaferro 2009, Weatherson 2014, and Weintraub 2013. For responses, see Bogardus 2009, Christensen 2009, Elga 2010, Graves 2013, Kornblith 2013, Littlejohn 2013, Matheson 2015b, and Pittard 2015. In brief, there is disagreement about the epistemic signif