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Peer Disagreement and the Dunning-Kruger Effect
Episteme (2017)
  • Eric Wiland, University of Missouri
Abstract
I argue that recent evidence about our self-serving biases has radical implications for the epistemology of peer disagreement. I conclude that much of the time when you are disagreeing with someone you regard as your epistemic peer, you should not merely move halfway to her judgment, as The Equal Weight View has it. That is not conciliatory enough. Surprisingly often, you should be at least weakly confident that you are wrong, and that your disputant is right.
Publication Date
January 12, 2017
DOI
10.1017/epi.2016.18
Citation Information
Eric Wiland. "Peer Disagreement and the Dunning-Kruger Effect" Episteme Vol. 14 Iss. 4 (2017) p. 481 - 498
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/eric-wiland/6/