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Disagreement

Disagreement

Disagreement

Diego E. Machuca, National Council for Scientific and Technical Research
December 2024
Hardback
9781009539289

    This Element engages with the epistemic significance of disagreement, focusing on its skeptical implications. It examines various types of disagreement-motivated skepticism in ancient philosophy, ethics, philosophy of religion, and general epistemology. In each case, it favors suspension of judgment as the seemingly appropriate response to the realization of disagreement. One main line of argument pursued in the Element is that, since in real-life disputes we have limited or inaccurate information about both our own epistemic standing and the epistemic standing of our dissenters, personal information and self-trust can rarely function as symmetry breakers in favor of our own views.

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    December 2024
    Hardback
    9781009539289
    76 pages
    229 × 152 × 6 mm
    0.276kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Ancient skepticism
    • 3. Moral disagreement
    • 4. Religious disagreement
    • 5. The epistemology of disagreement
    • 6. Conclusion
    • References.