The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement (Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy)
Jonathan Matheson
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Description for The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement (Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy)
Hardcover. 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. Series: Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy. Num Pages: 204 pages, 1 figures. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy
Number of Pages
190
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137400895
SKU
V9781137400895
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99-15
About Jonathan Matheson
Jonathan Matheson is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Florida. He works mainly in epistemology, and has published articles in Philosophical Studies, Episteme, and Social Epistemology among others, and is the co-editor (with Rico VItz) of The Ethics of Belief: Individual and Social.
Reviews for The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement (Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy)
“Matheson has provided us with an excellent overview of some of the most prominent positions and arguments in the literature so far. Matheson’s discussion is clear and organized thematically in a way that makes it well suited as an introductory text on the epistemology of disagreement. Matheson’s book is not only intended to provide an overview of the existing debate ... Read more