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How to serve two epistemic masters

Wronski, Leszek and Gyenis, Zalán (2024) How to serve two epistemic masters. [Preprint]

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Abstract

We extend a result by Gallow concerning the impossibility of following two epistemic masters, so that it covers a larger class of pooling methods. We also investigate a few ways of avoiding the issue, such as using non-convex pooling methods, employing the notion of imperfect trust or moving to higher-order probability spaces. Along the way we suggest a conceptual issue with the conditions used by Gallow: whenever two experts are considered, whether we can trust one of them is decided by the features of the other!


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Item Type: Preprint
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Wronski, Leszekleszek.wronski@uj.edu.pl
Gyenis, Zalánzalan.gyenis@uj.edu.pl
Keywords: credence, deference
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Epistemology
Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics
Depositing User: Zalán Gyenis
Date Deposited: 22 Apr 2024 17:57
Last Modified: 22 Apr 2024 17:57
Item ID: 23293
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Epistemology
Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics
Date: 2024
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23293

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