Disagreement is common: even informed, intelligent, and 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 is the first book on the epistemology of disagreement.

• Introduction


• 1: Peter van Inwagen: We're Right. They're Wrong.


• 2: Hilary Kornblith: Belief in the Face of Controversy


• 3: Catherine Z. Elgin: Persistent Disagreement


• 4: Earl Conee: Rational Disagreement Defended


• 5: Richard Fumerton: You Can't Trust a Philosopher


• 6: Thomas Kelly: Peer Disagreement and Higher Order Evidence


• 7: Adam Elga: How to Disagree About How to Disagree


• 8: Alvin I. Goldman: Epistemic Relativism and Reasonable Disagreement


• 9: Ralph Wedgwood: The Moral Evil Demons


• 10: Andy Egan: Disputing about Taste

Richard Feldman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rochester
Ted A. Warfield is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame