Epistemic Permissivism & Bayesian Theory (2018)
Can rational people disagree? The answer to this question depends on what kind of constraints epistemic rationality imposes on our beliefs. Because the answer has important implications for the philosophy of collaborative fields like science and statistics, philosophers have spilled a lot of ink trying to resolve it. Two competing theses yield two different answers: Uniqueness holds that there is only one rational doxastic response to any body of evidence, while Permissivism holds that there could be multiple doxastic responses to a body of evidence that qualify as rational. Of the two, I argue that Permissivism is correct.