The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement
Title | The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement PDF eBook |
Author | J. Matheson |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2015-02-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1137400900 |
Discovering someone disagrees with you is a common occurrence. The question of epistemic significance of disagreement concerns how discovering that another disagrees with you affects the rationality of your beliefs on that topic. This book examines the answers that have been proposed to this question, and presents and defends its own answer.
The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement
Title | The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement PDF eBook |
Author | J. Matheson |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2015-02-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1137400900 |
Discovering someone disagrees with you is a common occurrence. The question of epistemic significance of disagreement concerns how discovering that another disagrees with you affects the rationality of your beliefs on that topic. This book examines the answers that have been proposed to this question, and presents and defends its own answer.
The Epistemology of Disagreement
Title | The Epistemology of Disagreement PDF eBook |
Author | David Christensen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2013-04-25 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199698376 |
This is a collective study of the epistemic significance of disagreement: 12 contributors explore rival responses to the problems that it raises for philosophy. They develop our understanding of epistemic phenomena that are central to any thoughtful engagement with others' beliefs.
The Epistemic Benefits of Disagreement
Title | The Epistemic Benefits of Disagreement PDF eBook |
Author | Kirk Lougheed |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 2019-11-20 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 3030345033 |
This book presents an original discussion and analysis of epistemic peer disagreement. It reviews a wide range of cases from the literature, and extends the definition of epistemic peerhood with respect to the current one, to account for the actual variability found in real-world examples. The book offers a number of arguments supporting the variability in the nature and in the range of disagreements, and outlines the main benefits of disagreement among peers i.e. what the author calls the benefits to inquiry argument.
The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement with Others
Title | The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement with Others PDF eBook |
Author | John Alexander Bundy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 183 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781303537820 |
This dissertation examines the question of when and whether one should adjust one's credence in a proposition when one finds that one disagrees with someone else that one takes to be one's epistemic peer.
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Cappelen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 769 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199668779 |
This is the most comprehensive book ever published on philosophical methodology. A team of thirty-eight of the world's leading philosophers present original essays on various aspects of how philosophy should be and is done. The first part is devoted to broad traditions and approaches to philosophical methodology (including logical empiricism, phenomenology, and ordinary language philosophy). The entries in the second part address topics in philosophical methodology, such as intuitions, conceptual analysis, and transcendental arguments. The third part of the book is devoted to essays about the interconnections between philosophy and neighbouring fields, including those of mathematics, psychology, literature and film, and neuroscience.
Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment
Title | Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment PDF eBook |
Author | John Pittard |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0190051817 |
Every known religious or explicitly irreligious outlook is contested by large contingents of informed and reasonable people. Many philosophers have argued that reflection on this fact should lead us to abandon confident religious or irreligious belief and to embrace religious skepticism. John Pittard critically assesses the case for such disagreement-motivated religious skepticism. While the book focuses on religious disagreement, it makes a number of significant contributions to the more general discussion of the rational significance of disagreement as well.