Deliberation and confidence change
We argue that social deliberation may increase an agent’s confidence and credence under certain circumstances. An agent considers a proposition H and assigns a probability to it. However, she is not fully confident that she herself is reliable in this assignment. She then endorses H during deliberat...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Article (Journal) |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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25 February 2022
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Synthese
Year: 2022, Jahrgang: 200, Heft: 1, Pages: 1-13 |
| ISSN: | 1573-0964 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11229-022-03584-3 |
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| Verfasserangaben: | Nora Heinzelmann, Stephan Hartmann |
| Zusammenfassung: | We argue that social deliberation may increase an agent’s confidence and credence under certain circumstances. An agent considers a proposition H and assigns a probability to it. However, she is not fully confident that she herself is reliable in this assignment. She then endorses H during deliberation with another person, expecting him to raise serious objections. To her surprise, however, the other person does not raise any objections to H. How should her attitudes toward H change? It seems plausible that she should (i) increase the credence she assigns to H and, at the same time, (ii) increase the reliability she assigns to herself concerning H (i.e. her confidence). A Bayesian model helps us to investigate under what conditions, if any, this is rational. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-0964 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11229-022-03584-3 |