Srinivasan, A;
Hawthorne, J;
(2013)
Disagreement Without Transparency: Some Bleak Thoughts.
In: Christensen, D and Lackey, J, (eds.)
The Epistemology of Disagreement.
(pp. 9-30).
Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.
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Abstract
What ought one to do, epistemically speaking, when one encounters a disagreement? John Hawthorne and Amia Srinivasan argue that the search for satisfying and stable answers to this question will not be rewarded. This is because of the fact of non-transparency: that there are no conditions (including mental state conditions) such that we are always in a position to know whether they obtain. Non-transparency creates systematic problems for the project of formulating intuitive and stable epistemic norms. This chapter illustrates how this plays out in the special case of disagreement. It concludes with some tentative remarks about where this might leave the problem of disagreement, and the project of formulating epistemic norms more generally.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Disagreement Without Transparency: Some Bleak Thoughts |
| ISBN: | 0199698376 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780199698370 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199698370.001.0001 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199698370... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | pp. 9-30, The Epistemology of Disagreement: New Essays, edited by David Christensen and Jennifer Lackey, 2013, reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-epistemology-of-disagreement-9780199698370?cc=gb&lang=en& |
| Keywords: | disagreement, defeat, knowledge, norms, Angelika Kratzer, luminosity, ought, semantics, transparency, Timothy Williamson |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1471882 |
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