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Defending Deep Disagreement

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Fallacies and the concept of an argument

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You Should Have Arguments For Your Views

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Critical Thinking and Intractable Disagreement

Philosophy of Education, 2006

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Sensibility Theory and Conservative Complancency

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Dec 1, 2005

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Revisiting Deep Disagreement

Informal Logic, 2005

Argument-giving reasons for a view-is our model of rational dispute resolution. Fogelin (1985) su... more Argument-giving reasons for a view-is our model of rational dispute resolution. Fogelin (1985) suggests that certain "deep" disagreements cannot be resolved in this way because features of their context "undercut the conditions essential to arguing" (p. 5). In this paper we add some detail to Fogelin's treatment of intractable disagreements. In doing so we distinguish between his relatively modest claim that some disputes cannot be resolved through argument and his more radical claim that such disputes are beyond rational resolution. This distinction, along with some ofthe detail we add to Fogelin's treatment, sheds some useful light on the project of informal logic.

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Folk Psychology and the Philosophy of Mind

Teaching Philosophy, 1994

Tempting Mistakes: Toward a Rylean Account of Fallacies

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Commentary on Blatz

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Defending Deep Disagreement

Argument has many functions. Argument can be used to articulate a position to oneself or to an au... more Argument has many functions. Argument can be used to articulate a position to oneself or to an audience; to show to oneself or others that a position is reasonable, in the sense that reasons can be given in favor of the position taken; as a tool of intellectual exploration or inquiry; and to help ‘locate’ areas of disagreement with or without the intention of addressing those areas. But clearly, one of the most obvious and important functions of argument is the rational resolution of disagreement. We often engage in argumentative discourse with the expectation that the end result will be a reasoned resolution of disagreement. In fact, part of the basic motivation of philosophical inquiry, and of the critical thinking movement as a specialized branch of philosophical inquiry, is that the careful construction and analysis of arguments can produce real progress in the adjudication of intellectual disputes—whether they be about such age-old philosophical controversies as the existence o...

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You Should Have Arguments For Your Views

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John D. Greenwood, ed., The Future of Folk Psychology: Intentionality and Cognitive Science; Scott M. Christensen and Dale R. Turner, eds., Folk Psychology and the Philosophy of Mind

Minds and Machines, 2000

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Introduction: Deep Disagreement Re-examined

Informal Logic

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Revisiting Deep Disagreement

Informal Logic, 2005

Argument-giving reasons for a view-is our model of rational dispute resolution. Fogelin (1985) su... more Argument-giving reasons for a view-is our model of rational dispute resolution. Fogelin (1985) suggests that certain "deep" disagreements cannot be resolved in this way because features of their context "undercut the conditions essential to arguing" (p. 5). In this paper we add some detail to Fogelin's treatment of intractable disagreements. In doing so we distinguish between his relatively modest claim that some disputes cannot be resolved through argument and his more radical claim that such disputes are beyond rational resolution. This distinction, along with some ofthe detail we add to Fogelin's treatment, sheds some useful light on the project of informal logic.

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Tempting Mistakes: Toward a Rylean Account of Fallacies

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Critical Thinking and Intractable Disagreement

Philosophy of Education Archive, 2006

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Fallacies and the concept of an argument /

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2000. Includes bibliographical references (... more

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How to Teach

Teaching Philosophy, 2013

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Existence problems in philosophy and science

Synthese, 2013

We initially characterize what we'll call existence problems as problems where there is evidence ... more We initially characterize what we'll call existence problems as problems where there is evidence that a putative entity exists and this evidence is not easily dismissed; however, the evidence is not adequate to justify the claim that the entity exists, and in particular the entity hasn't been detected. The putative entity is elusive. We then offer a strategy for determining whether an existence problem is philosophical or scientific. According to this strategy (1) existence problems are characterized in terms of causal roles, and (2) these problems are categorized as scientific or philosophical on the basis of the epistemic context of putative realizers. We argue that the first step of the strategy is necessary to avoid begging the question with regard to categorization of existence problems, and the second step categorizes existence problems on the basis of a distinction between two ways in which an entity can be elusive. This distinction between kinds of elusiveness takes as background a standard account of inference to the best explanation. Applying this strategy, we argue that the existence of a multiverse is a scientific problem. Keywords Existence • Inference to the best explanation • Pseudoscience • Multiverse A number of theoretical physicists have proposed that there is a multiverse described as encompassing indefinitely many pocket universes each produced by a mechanism such as eternal inflation (for example, see Susskind 2007 and Vilenkin 2007). We'll call this proposal the multiverse hypothesis. However, despite the proposal of this

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Sensibility Theory and Conservative Complancency

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2005

Abstract: In Ruling Passions, Simon Blackburn contends that we should reject sensibility theory b... more

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