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 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 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.
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.
The Epistemology of Group Disagreement
Title | The Epistemology of Group Disagreement PDF eBook |
Author | Fernando Broncano-Berrocal |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2020-12-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0429663587 |
This book brings together philosophers to investigate the nature and normativity of group disagreement. Debates in the epistemology of disagreement mainly have been concerned with idealized cases of peer disagreement between individuals. However, most real-life disagreements are complex and often take place within and between groups. Ascribing views, beliefs, and judgments to groups is a common phenomenon that is well researched in the literature on the ontology and epistemology of groups. The essays in this volume seek to connect these literatures and to explore both intra- and inter- group disagreements. They apply their discussions to a range of political, religious, social, and scientific issues. The Epistemology of Group Disagreement is an important resource for students and scholars working on social and applied epistemology, disagreement, and topics at the intersection of epistemology, ethics, and politics.