Hartmann, Stephan and Martini, Carlo and Sprenger, Jan (2009) Consensual Decision-Making Among Epistemic Peers. [Preprint]

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This paper focuses on the question of how to resolve disagreement, and uses the Lehrer-Wagner model as a formal tool for investigating consensual decision-making. The main result consists in a general definition of when agents treat each other as epistemic peers (Kelly 2005; Elga 2007), and a theorem vindicating the "equal weight view" to resolve disagreement among epistemic peers. We apply our findings to an analysis of the impact of social network structures on group deliberation processes, and we demonstrate their stability with the help of numerical simulations.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Hartmann, Stephan s.hartmann@lmu.de 0000-0001-8676-2177 Martini, Carlo Sprenger, Jan
Additional Information:	The paper will appear in a special issue of the journal Episteme.
Keywords:	Formal social epistemology, consensus, disagreement, epistemic peers, equal weight view, social networks
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics General Issues > Decision Theory General Issues > Confirmation/Induction Specific Sciences > Sociology Specific Sciences > Economics
Depositing User:	Stephan Hartmann
Date Deposited:	06 Mar 2009
Last Modified:	12 Jul 2024 17:55
Item ID:	4491
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics General Issues > Decision Theory General Issues > Confirmation/Induction Specific Sciences > Sociology Specific Sciences > Economics
Date:	March 2009
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/4491

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