Overview
- Discusses the variability in the nature and in the range of disagreements among peers
- Offers a broader definition of epistemic peerhood that can accommodate cases of real-life worldview disagreement
- Defends the idea that there are epistemic benefits to remaining steadfast in the face of disagreement within the context of inquiry
- Answers a number of objections to the benefits to inquiry argument
Part of the book series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE, volume 51)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Epistemology of Disagreement: The Current Debate
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The Epistemic Benefits of Disagreement
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About this book
This book presents an original discussion and analysis of epistemic peer disagreement. It reviews a wide range of cases from the literature, and extends the definition of epistemic peerhood with respect to the current one, to account for the actual variability found in real-world examples. The book offers a number of arguments supporting the variability in the nature and in the range of disagreements, and outlines the main benefits of disagreement among peers i.e. what the author calls the benefits to inquiry argument.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Epistemic Benefits of Disagreement
Authors: Kirk Lougheed
Series Title: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34503-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34502-0Published: 21 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34505-1Published: 21 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34503-7Published: 20 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2192-6255
Series E-ISSN: 2192-6263
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 126
Topics: Philosophy of Religion, Epistemology, Personality and Social Psychology