Description:

Fourth Installment of our Sawyer Seminar Conferences themed, "Expertise and Disagreement".

Any group of diverse individuals who share information will confront the need to manage disagreement. This is true even when -- sometimes especially when -- the individuals are experts in the field under discussion. Given disagreement in some area, what can be learned about the topic(s) under discussion from the fact that there is disagreement in that area, or about the nature of expertise in the area? Under what conditions, if any, should we regard disagreement as indicating that none of the views that are in dispute is to be taken as knowledgeable? And finally, what should non-experts do when they depend on experts who disagree amongst themselves?

Speakers:
Topic 1: Peer Disagreement
Branden Fitelson, Rutgers University
Kate Elgin, Harvard University

Topic 2: Expert Disagreement
John Beatty, University of British Columbia
Miriam Solomon, Temple University
Jeryl Mumpower, Texas A&M University
Aaron Panofsky, UCLA

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