Disagreeing with Equals?

How much should your confidence in your beliefs diminish when you learn that others, who seem just as informed and reasonable as you, hold beliefs contrary to yours? Perhaps a little less confident, or even suspend belief? For if they really are your epistemic peer, then you are no better than them as a truth-o-meter, and, as with other measuring devices, you should take the average. Or could you remain just as confident as you were? For it is implausible to think that there is only one way of taking the evidence in difficult cases, as so understandable that epistemic equals could reasonably come to different conclusions. David Christensen [article attached, in MeetUps] considers these and other arguments, and so will we.

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