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n. A policy of conciliation.
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Conciliationism is a view in the epistemology of disagreement according to which one should revise one's opinions closer to one's peers in the face of epistemic disagreement. Nathan Ballantyne and E.J. Coffman define the view as follows:
Conciliationism: In a revealed peer disagreement over P, each thinker should give at least some weight to her peer’s attitude. That is, each thinker’s confidence should change to some extent: neither thinker is justified in staying exactly as confident as she initially was regarding whether P.Philosopher David Christensen has been a prominent defender of this view. Others have argued in its favor as well. Some have discussed the implications of this view for religious belief.
A standard objection is that conciliationism is self-undermining because most philosophers don't accept it. A number of responses have been offered.
Tyler Cowen and Robin Hanson have argued that many disagreements are "dishonest" because in the face of peer disagreement, people typically favor their own positions for various reasons. This stands in contrast to results like Aumann's agreement theorem suggesting they should update their beliefs in each other's directions.
Usage examples of "conciliationism".
Social Democrats in that period sank into conciliationism, proceeding from the most varied motives.
Most consistently of all was conciliationism expressed by Trotsky, about the only one who tried to provide a theoretical foundation for that policy.
Social Democracy at this time provoked a reaction in the form of conciliationism, of which Trotsky became the main spokesman.
On the question of conciliationism, no one had been so outspoken as Trotsky before the War.
I was sick with the disease of conciliationism towards Menshevism and with a distrustful attitude toward Leninist centralism.
Conciliationism had its adherents in all the groups, the Bolsheviks included.
Johnstone attacks Trotsky for his conciliationism before 1917, but forgets to mention that Stalin and Co.
If that is true, then Lenin himself was guilty of the arch-Trotskyist sin of conciliationism in his repeated attempts to get the Mensheviks to co-operate in the running of the Party for months after the Congress.
A number of Social Democrats in that period sank into conciliationism, proceeding from the most varied motives.