Disagreement (eBook)

Bryan Frances is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University

List of Stories

Introduction

Part 1: Basics of Disagreement
1. Genuine vs. Illusory Disagreement
2. Easier Questions about Disagreement
3. Harder Questions about Disagreement
4. Expert Testimony and Higher-Order Evidence
5. Peers, Inferiors, and Superiors
6. Some Results
7. The Peer Rule and the Superior Rule
8. Disagreement over Facts, Values, And Religion
9. Disagreement over Beliefs vs. Actions
10. What We Should Believe vs. What We Actually Believe
11. Response to Disagreement vs. Subsequent Level Of Confidence
12. What It Means To Realize Disagreement
13. The Disagreement Question Refined
14. Disagreement with One vs. Disagreement with Many
15. Some More Results
16. Study Questions and Problems

Part 2: Conciliatory or Steadfast?
1. Introduction
2. Revising the Three Rules Of Thumb
3. Rethinking Judgments about Peers And Superiors
4. More Revision: Confidence Level vs. Evidence Level
5. When You Have No Idea Who is in the Better Position
6. Split Experts
7. Special Case: Religious Belief
8. Some Results
9. Questions on Uniqueness, Independence, and Peerhood
Uniqueness
Independence
Conditional Peers and Superiors
Feldman's Questions
10. Does Disagreement Lead To Skepticism?
11. The Disagreement Question Revisited
12. Study Questions and Problems
Index

"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 students, it also gave me new things to think about."
David Christensen, Brown University