Disagreement

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-922608-5
Verlag: OUP UK

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 462 g

Specially written essays on a hot topic in philosophy
Excellent line-up of contributors

Disagreement is common: even informed, intelligent, and generally reasonable people often come to different conclusions when confronted with what seems to be the same evidence. Can the competing conclusions be reasonable? If not, what can we reasonably think about the situation? This volume examines the epistemology of disagreement. Philosophical questions about disagreement arise in various areas, notably politics, ethics, aesthetics, and the philosophy of religion: but this will be the first book focusing on the general epistemic issues arising from informed disagreement. Ten leading philosophers offer specially written essays which together will offer a starting-point for future work on this topic.

Zielgruppe

Advanced students and scholars in the central areas of philosophy

Autoren/Hrsg.

Feldman, Richard

Warfield, Ted A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1: Peter van Inwagen: We're Right. They're Wrong.
2: Hilary Kornblith: Belief in the Face of Controversy
3: Catherine Z. Elgin: Persistent Disagreement
4: Earl Conee: Rational Disagreement Defended
5: Richard Fumerton: You Can't Trust a Philosopher
6: Thomas Kelly: Peer Disagreement and Higher Order Evidence
7: Adam Elga: How to Disagree About How to Disagree
8: Alvin I. Goldman: Epistemic Relativism and Reasonable Disagreement
9: Ralph Wedgwood: The Moral Evil Demons
10: Andy Egan: Disputing about Taste

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by Richard Feldman, University of Rochester, and Ted A. Warfield, University of Notre Dame

Contributors:
Earl Conee is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rochester

Andy Egan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University

Adam Elga is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University

Catherine Z. Elgin is Professor of the Philosophy of Education at Harvard University

Richard Feldman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rochester

Richard Fumerton is F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa

Alvin I. Goldman is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University

Thomas Kelly is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University

Hilary Kornblith is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Peter van Inwagen is John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame

Ted A. Warfield is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame

Ralph Wedgwood is Professor of Philosophy, Merton College, University of Oxford