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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.
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“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 about disagreement, it is also meant to contribute to that debate by mounting a systematic defence of a conciliatory view … .” (Finnur Dellsén, Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 67 (269), October, 2017)
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About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement
Authors: Jonathan Matheson
Series Title: Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137400901
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-40089-5Published: 25 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-48622-9Published: 01 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-40090-1Published: 10 February 2015
Series ISSN: 2946-2851
Series E-ISSN: 2946-286X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 190
Topics: Epistemology