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Description for Disagreement
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; HPL; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 404.
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. Unless you are delusional, you are aware that a great many of the people who disagree with you are just as smart and thoughtful as you are - in fact, you know that often they are smarter and more informed. But believing someone to be cleverer or more knowledgeable about a particular topic usually won’t change your mind. Should it?
This book is devoted ... Read more
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. Unless you are delusional, you are aware that a great many of the people who disagree with you are just as smart and thoughtful as you are - in fact, you know that often they are smarter and more informed. But believing someone to be cleverer or more knowledgeable about a particular topic usually won’t change your mind. Should it?
This book is devoted ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745672267
SKU
V9780745672267
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About Bryan Frances
Bryan Frances is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University
Reviews for Disagreement
"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 ... Read more