It’s common sense – you don’t need to believe to disagree!

Kürthy, Miklós, Bex-Priestley, Graham and Shemmer, Yonatan (2023) It’s common sense – you don’t need to believe to disagree! Philosophical Psychology. ISSN 0951-5089

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Abstract

It is often assumed that disagreement only occurs when there is a clash (e.g., inconsistency) between beliefs. In the philosophical literature, this “narrow” view has sometimes been considered the obvious, intuitively correct view. In this paper, we argue that it should not be. We have conducted two preregistered studies gauging English speakers’ intuitions about whether there is disagreement in a case where the parties have non-clashing beliefs and clashing intentions. Our results suggest that common intuitions tell against the default view. Ordinary speakers describe clashes of intentions as disagreements, suggesting that the ordinary concept of disagreement is “wide” in that it extends beyond beliefs.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > UEA Experimental Philosophy Group
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	21 May 2024 12:30
Last Modified:	24 May 2024 07:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/95265
DOI:	10.1080/09515089.2023.2201301

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