The Epistemic Significance Of Disagreement

The world is full of disagreements.According to this article,Equal Weight View is a reasonable response to the epistemic significance of disagreement.But this view was immediately rejected by others.This article defend this view from these rejecters.In this way,Equal Weight View is identified as a reasonable response to the epistemic significance of disagreement.First,in order to be precision,to control for unintended factors and to set the criterion for the epistemic significance of disagreement,we established the idealized disagreement based on the concept of epistemic peers.Second,having set up our idealized cases of disagreement,we examined two broad camps:Steadfast Views of disagreement and Conciliatory Views of disagreement.Equal Weight View belongs to Conciliatory Views,so it is confronted with the challenge from Steadfast Views of disagreement at first.Besides,Equal Weight View is also faced with the reject from the Total Evidence View and the Justificationist View inside the Conciliatory Views of disagreement.The writer defended the Equal Weight View from these rejects.Finally,we back to the everyday disagreements,and examined the problems when the Equal Weight View used in the everyday disagreements may occur.We end up with the conclusion that whether in the idealized cases of disagreement or the everyday disagreements,Equal Weight View is a reasonable response to the epistemic significance of disagreement.