Shemmer, Y. orcid.org/0000-0001-5842-8470 and Bex‐Priestley, G. (2021) Disagreement without belief. Metaphilosophy, 52 (3-4). pp. 494-507. ISSN: 0026-1068
Abstract
When theorising about disagreement, it is tempting to begin with a person's belief that p and ask what mental state one must have in order to disagree with it. This is the wrong way to go; the paper argues that people may also disagree with attitudes that are not beliefs. It then examines whether several existing theories of disagreement can account for this phenomenon. It argues that its own normative theory of disagreement gives the best account, and so, given that there is good reason to believe disagreement without belief is possible, there is good reason to think that disagreement itself is normative.
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| Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Authors. Metaphilosophy published by Metaphilosophy LLC and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
| Keywords: | contextualism; disagreement; experimental philosophy; expressivism; non-cognitivism; normativity; metaethics; relativism; subjectivism |
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| Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
| Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Feb 2026 15:30 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Feb 2026 16:10 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Identification Number: | 10.1111/meta.12489 |
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| Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:238153 |
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