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Updating on the evidence of others.

Authors :
Pettigrew, Richard
Weisberg, Jonathan
Source :
Philosophical Studies. Oct2024, Vol. 181 Issue 10, p2539-2562. 24p.
Publication Year :
2024

Abstract

One often learns the opinions of others without getting to hear the evidence behind them. How should you revise your own opinions in such cases? Dietrich (2010) shows that, for opinions about objective chance, the method known as upco effectively adds your interlocutor's evidence to your own. We provide a simple way of viewing upco that makes properties like Dietrich's easy to appreciate, and we do three things with it. First, we unify Dietrich's motivation for upco with another motivation due to Easwaran et al. (2016). Second, we show that laypeople can sometimes use upco to resolve expert disagreements. And third, we use it to cricitize the social argument for the uniqueness thesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00318116
Volume :
181
Issue :
10
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Philosophical Studies
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
180402800
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-024-02173-z