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Filled full of interesting examples of disagreement taken from daily life Covers every key position in the debate over disagreemant Avoids jargon and explains complex philosophical questions in a witty and accessible manner Includes helpful pedagogical features such as study questions and case studies.
List of contents
List of Stories
Introduction
Part 1: Basics of Disagreement
1. Genuine vs. Illusory Disagreement
2. Easier Questions about Disagreement
3. Harder Questions about Disagreement
4. Expert Testimony and Higher-Order Evidence
5. Peers, Inferiors, and Superiors
6. Some Results
7. The Peer Rule and the Superior Rule
8. Disagreement over Facts, Values, And Religion
9. Disagreement over Beliefs vs. Actions
10. What We Should Believe vs. What We Actually Believe
11. Response to Disagreement vs. Subsequent Level Of Confidence
12. What It Means To Realize Disagreement
13. The Disagreement Question Refined
14. Disagreement with One vs. Disagreement with Many
15. Some More Results
16. Study Questions and Problems
Part 2: Conciliatory or Steadfast?
1. Introduction
2. Revising the Three Rules Of Thumb
3. Rethinking Judgments about Peers And Superiors
4. More Revision: Confidence Level vs. Evidence Level
5. When You Have No Idea Who is in the Better Position
6. Split Experts
7. Special Case: Religious Belief
8. Some Results
9. Questions on Uniqueness, Independence, and Peerhood
Uniqueness
Independence
Conditional Peers and Superiors
Feldman's Questions
10. Does Disagreement Lead To Skepticism?
11. The Disagreement Question Revisited
12. Study Questions and Problems
Index
About the author
Bryan Frances is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University
Summary
Regardless of who you are or how you live your life, you disagree with millions of people on an enormous number of topics from politics, religion and morality to sport, culture and art.
Report
"A fine introduction to the issues surrounding disagreement, this text will engage students with its lively prose and lucid thought."
Ernest Sosa, Rutgers University
"Frances's commitment to working with realistic examples makes for a kind of contact with everyday intellectual life that can seem missing in much of the professional literature on disagreement. Although the book is designed for students, it also gave me new things to think about."
David Christensen, Brown University
