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When is consensus knowledge based? Distinguishing shared knowledge from mere agreementSynthese 190 (7): 1293-1316. 2013.Scientific consensus is widely deferred to in public debates as a social indicator of the existence of knowledge. However, it is far from clear that such deference to consensus is always justified. The existence of agreement in a community of researchers is a contingent fact, and researchers may reach a consensus for all kinds of reasons, such as fighting a common foe or sharing a common bias. Scientific consensus, by itself, does not necessarily indicate the existence of shared knowledge among …Read more
Boaz Miller
Zefat Academic College
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Zefat Academic CollegeManagement Information SystensSenior Lecturer
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science
PhD, 2011