Machine generated contents note: 1.We're Right. They're Wrong / Peter van Inwagen -- 2.Belief in the Face of Controversy / Hilary Kornblith -- 3.Persistent Disagreement / Catherine Z. Elgin -- 4.Rational Disagreement Defended / Earl Conee -- 5.You Can't Trust a Philosopher / Richard Fumerton -- 6.Peer Disagreement and Higher-Order Evidence / Thomas Kelly -- 7.How to Disagree about How to Disagree / Adam Elga -- 8.Epistemic Relativism and Reasonable Disagreement / Alvin I. Goldman -- 9.The Moral Evil Demons / Ralph Wedgwood -- 10.Disputing about Taste / Andy Egan.
Summary
Disagreement is common: even informed, intelligent, & generally reasonable people often come to different conclusions when confronted with what seems to be the same evidence. Can the competing conclusions be reasonable? If not, what can we reasonably think about the situation? This book covers the epistemology of disagreement.