Cover Story: Can reasonable people disagree? I f equally intelligent, knowledgeable, open-minded people disagree, isn’t i t rational for both sides to suspend judgement? Given how widespread disagreement is, does this mean that we know a lot less than we think we know? Philosophers, unsurprisingly, disagree.
FORUM 77 Begging to differ Catherine Z Elgin 77 Moral disagreements
Russ Shafer-Landau
83 Religious disagreements Graham Oppy
90 Aesthetic disagreements Cain Todd
95 Peer disagreements Jennifer Lackey
BOOKS 111 Massimo Pigliucci on Why Does the
World Exist?
113 Clayton Littlejohn on Rational Causation 115 James Stacey Taylor on What Money
Can’t Buy and Why Some Things Should Not be for Sale
119 Anne Jaap Jacobson on The Second
Sexism
121 Russell Blackford on The New Religious
Intolerance
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