The Epistemic Benefits of Disagreement

The Epistemic Benefits of Disagreement
Author: Kirk Lougheed
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total 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

The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement
Author: J. Matheson
Publisher: Springer
Total 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.

Reasonable Disagreement

Reasonable Disagreement
Author: Christopher McMahon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2009-07-16
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 052176288X

This book-length treatment of reasonable disagreement in politics sheds light on this important and overlooked aspect of political life.

Voicing Dissent

Voicing Dissent
Author: Casey Rebecca Johnson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2018-02-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1351721569

Disagreement is, for better or worse, pervasive in our society. Not only do we form beliefs that differ from those around us, but increasingly we have platforms and opportunities to voice those disagreements and make them public. In light of the public nature of many of our most important disagreements, a key question emerges: How does public disagreement affect what we know? This volume collects original essays from a number of prominent scholars—including Catherine Elgin, Sanford Goldberg, Jennifer Lackey, Michael Patrick Lynch, and Duncan Pritchard, among others—to address this question in its diverse forms. The book is organized by thematic sections, in which individual chapters address the epistemic, ethical, and political dimensions of dissent. The individual contributions address important issues such as the value of disagreement, the nature of conversational disagreement, when dissent is epistemically rational, when one is obligated to voice disagreement or to object, the relation of silence and resistance to dissent, and when political dissent is justified. Voicing Dissent offers a new approach to the study of disagreement that will appeal to social epistemologists and ethicists interested in this growing area of epistemology.

The Epistemology of Disagreement

The Epistemology of Disagreement
Author: David Christensen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total 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.

Religious Disagreement

Religious Disagreement
Author: Helen De Cruz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1108566731

This Element examines what we can learn from religious disagreement, focusing on disagreement with possible selves and former selves, the epistemic significance of religious agreement, the problem of disagreements between religious experts, and the significance of philosophy of religion. Helen De Cruz shows how religious beliefs of others constitute significant higher-order evidence. At the same time, she advises that we should not necessarily become agnostic about all religious matters, because our cognitive background colors the way we evaluate evidence. This allows us to maintain religious beliefs in many cases, while nevertheless taking the religious beliefs of others seriously.

The Epistemology of Group Disagreement

The Epistemology of Group Disagreement
Author: Fernando Broncano-Berrocal
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2020-11-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429666306

This book brings together philosophers to investigate the nature and normativity of group disagreement. Debates in the epistemology of disagreement have mainly 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 chapters 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.

The Epistemology of Resistance

The Epistemology of Resistance
Author: José Medina
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2013
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199929025

This book explores the epistemic side of racial and sexual oppression. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from listening to each other.

Epistemic Injustice

Epistemic Injustice
Author: Miranda Fricker
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2007-07-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191519308

In this exploration of new territory between ethics and epistemology, Miranda Fricker argues that there is a distinctively epistemic type of injustice, in which someone is wronged specifically in their capacity as a knower. Justice is one of the oldest and most central themes in philosophy, but in order to reveal the ethical dimension of our epistemic practices the focus must shift to injustice. Fricker adjusts the philosophical lens so that we see through to the negative space that is epistemic injustice. The book explores two different types of epistemic injustice, each driven by a form of prejudice, and from this exploration comes a positive account of two corrective ethical-intellectual virtues. The characterization of these phenomena casts light on many issues, such as social power, prejudice, virtue, and the genealogy of knowledge, and it proposes a virtue epistemological account of testimony. In this ground-breaking book, the entanglements of reason and social power are traced in a new way, to reveal the different forms of epistemic injustice and their place in the broad pattern of social injustice.

Democracy and Moral Conflict

Democracy and Moral Conflict
Author: Robert B. Talisse
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2009-09-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0521513545

If confronted with a democratic result they regard as intolerable, should citizens revolt or pursue democratic means of social change?