Contextualist Answers to the Challenge from Disagreement

In this short paper I survey recent contextualist answers to the challenge from disagreement raised by contemporary relativists. After making the challenge vivid by means of a working example, I specify the notion of disagreement lying at the heart of the challenge. The answers are grouped in three...

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Main Author: Dan Zeman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Rosenberg & Sellier 2017-08-01
Series:Phenomenology and Mind
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Online Access:https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/pam/article/view/7266
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Summary:In this short paper I survey recent contextualist answers to the challenge from disagreement raised by contemporary relativists. After making the challenge vivid by means of a working example, I specify the notion of disagreement lying at the heart of the challenge. The answers are grouped in three categories, the first characterized by rejecting the intuition of disagreement in certain cases, the second by conceiving disagreement as a clash of non-cognitive attitudes and the third by relegating disagreement at the pragmatic level. For each category I present several important variants and raise some (general) criticisms. The paper is meant to offer a quick introduction to the current contextualist literature on disagreement and thus a useful tool for further research.
ISSN:2280-7853
2239-4028