PHL 214 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Pareidolia, Confirmation Bias
14 Feb 2016
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If a claim conflicts with other claims we have good reason to accept, we have good grounds for doubting it. If a claim conflicts with background info, we have good reason to doubt it. It"s not reasonable to believe a claim when there is no good reason to do so. Experts more likely to be right because have access to more info + better ad judging that info. If claim conflicts with expert opinion, there is good reason to doubt it. When there is disagreement about claim among relevant experts, there is a good reason to doubt. Must remain doubtful until experts resolve/you figure it out yourself. Reliance on bogus expert opinion = appeal to authority fallacy. Just because someone is an expert in one field expert in another field. E. g. geneticist on finance, or a global warming detection expert on fixing global warming. Expertise in x field doesn"t give us reason to believe their pronouncements in y field.
