The astute and the kindly ones. Epistemological remarks on disagreements in politics and law


Weber, Marc Andree



DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/18756735-00000200
URL: https://brill.com/view/journals/gps/101/1/article-...
Document Type: Article
Year of publication: 2024
The title of a journal, publication series: Grazer philosophische Studien : GPS
Volume: 101
Issue number: 1
Page range: 1-27
Place of publication: Leiden
Publishing house: Brill Rodopi
ISSN: 0165-9227 , 1875-6735
Publication language: English
Institution: School of Humanities > Philosophie I (Freitag 2018-)
Subject: 100 Philosophy
Keywords (English): disagreement , peers , epistemology , politics , law , experts
Abstract: Recently, epistemologists have been much concerned with the question of whether or not we have to revise our beliefs if there are people whose epistemic position is as good as ours and who disagree with us. The results of such considerations, whatever they are, are sometimes said to be restricted to domains in which, unlike in politics or law, the relevant agents are not under any pressure to act in accordance with their beliefs, have no deeply held ideological beliefs, or have no beliefs that stem from their particular aims or desires. In response to this, and with regard to the paradigmatic cases of politics and law, this article argues that there are no genuine political or legal disagreements: what we call a political or legal disagreement is either no disagreement at all but a mere clash of interest, or it is a an empirical, moral, or practical disagreement that is not genuinely political or legal. To the latter, epistemological insights apply; to the former, they do not.
Translation of the title: Die Raffinierten und die Wohlgesinnten. Erkenntnistheoretische Anmerkungen zu Meinungsverschiedenheiten in Politik und Recht (German)




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