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Colin RULOFF ABSTRACT: In a widely cited paper, Thomas Mulligan argues that conciliationism generates three paradoxes or puzzles when this theory is applied to a class of propositions related to epistemic peerhood. Mulligan claims that these three paradoxes not only pose a significant theoretical challenge to conciliationism, but that they are potentially fatal to the theory. In what follows, I …

Kirk LOUGHEED ABSTRACT: Many religious believers do not appear to take the existence of epistemic peer disagreement as a serious challenge to the rationality of their religious beliefs. They seem to think they have different evidence for their religious beliefs and hence aren’t really epistemic peers with their opponents. One underexplored potential evidential asymmetry in religious disagreements is based on …