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The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement
Jonathan Matheson
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Description for The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement
Paperback. 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: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
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
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy
Number of Pages
190
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349486229
SKU
V9781349486229
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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
“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