Peer Disagreement, Testimony, and Personal Justification

Peer Disagreement and Total Evidence

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Peer Disagreement and Higher Order Evidence

Peer review and knowledge by testimony in mathematics

The peer review process has been the topic of many studies in the medical sciences, but not so in mathematics. Given that mathematicians refer to results from the literature without checking the proofs in detail, it is interesting to see how the mathematical refereeing process affects the epistemic certainty of this type of mathematical knowledge by testimony. We give a description of the mathe...

ORI GIN AL PA PER Peer Disagreement and Independence Preservation

It has often been recommended that the differing probability distributions of a group of experts should be reconciled in such a way as to preserve each instance of independence common to all of their distributions. When probability pooling is subject to a universal domain condition, along with state-wise aggregation, there are severe limitations on implementing this recommendation. In particula...

Context Dependence , Disagreement , and Predicates of Personal Taste

This paper argues that truth values of sentences containing predicates of ‘‘personal taste’’ such as fun or tasty must be relativized to individuals. This relativization is of truth value only, and does not involve a relativization of semantic content: If you say roller coasters are fun, and I say they are not, I am negating the same content which you assert, and directly contradicting you. Non...