Agency and Disagreement

What should one do in the face of disagreement? Should one suspend belief, or can one persist in one’s belief? This paper addresses this question through consideration of the related problem of what experts one can trust. What determines what one should in the face of disagreement, the paper argues, are both facts about one’s warrant for belief and facts about how this warrant is possessed. In arguing this, positive proposals are made about the nature of epistemic agency and how this connects with dogmatism, trust and epistemic autonomy