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Human agency requires an objectively open future.
This is wrong. More importantly, predictions, promises, bets, etc. Consensus in contemporary philosophy of science is typically seen as the locus of progress, rationality, and even truth. The historical data, however, shows that there are many examples of scientific progress without consensus, and many examples of consensus without progress. I argue that the distinction between dissent and consensus is of little epistemic significance.