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Showing 1 to 20 of 706 for “"disagreement"”.
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Constructive online disagreement
… However, there are also cases where online disagreements are very constructive, an example of which can be seen on Wikipedia Talk pages. Wikipedia volunteers develop articles through consensus-based collaboration, which requires the integration of different opinions. To manage these …
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Moral Disagreement and Moral Realism
… dissertation provides a novel argument from disagreement against moral realism. Moral anti-realists have long suspected that something about the scope and/or nature of moral disagreement threatens moral realism, but existing arguments are either unsound, or rely upon premises which are too …
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Making Sense of Faultless Disagreement
… examines the phenomenon of faultless disagreement: situations in which it seems that neither of two opposing sides has made a mistake in upholding their respective positions. I explore the way in which we ought to conceive of the nature of the kinds of claims that give rise to …
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Virtuous Disagreement in Apologetics: Virtue Responsibilism as an Apologetical Response to the Epistemology of Disagreement
The two traditional views in the epistemology of disagreement have offered distinct responses to the challenge of epistemic conflict. The purpose of this dissertation is to challenge these responses and offer a satisfactory position. This position is congruent with social epistemology as well as …
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Public Unreason: Essays on Political Disagreement
<p>Why is political disagreement such a persistent and pervasive feature of contemporary societies? Many political philosophers answer by pointing to moral pluralism and the complexity of relevant non-moral facts. In Chapter 1, I argue that this answer is seriously inadequate. Drawing on work from …
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Basic rights and disagreement: is persistent disagreement about basic rights a reason to specify rights by democratic procedures?
Reasonable disagreement about rights is commonly thought to challenge the legitimacy of political liberalism and judicial review. If citizens persistently and reasonably disagree about basic rights, how can any state adopt laws that all citizens can reasonably accept? Why can a handful of judges …
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Essays on corporate governance and investor disagreement
… the roles of corporate governance and investor disagreement, respectively, in the performance and stock market valuations of firms. In the first chapter, I demonstrate that the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance varies with industry performance cycles. Firms with …
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UNDERSTANDING DISAGREEMENT: THE NEED FOR MORAL PSYCHOLOGY IN BIOETHICS
… of a contingent conflict of norms." These disagreements are sometimes contentious; and without cooperation, or at least tolerance, deliberations involving bioethics issues become ineffectual. Knowledge of moral psychology may facilitate agreement, or at a minimum encourage respect for …
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The epistemic significance of disagreement for evaluating epistemic position
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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The Epistemology of Disagreement; Can Theists and Atheists Reasonably Disagree?
… this thesis is to investigate the phenomenon of disagreement from an epistemological point of view. In other words, this thesis explores how disagreement affects the rationality of our beliefs. In particular, I have focused on disagreements with respect to religious matters. One of the arguments …
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KL divergence – based disagreement sampling for multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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An exploratory study of expressing disagreement in ELF academic group discussion
… acts, and chief among these is, arguably, disagreement. The need to disagree amicably is important for two reasons: (1) to achieve consensus on group tasks, and (2) to negotiate meaning around academic topics. There is, however, little known about how disagreement is realised in ELF …
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An Examination of Agreement and Disagreement in Perceptions of the Morally Exceptional
… is subjective by examining agreement and disagreement in perceptions of moral exemplars across people. To the extent that agreement existed, the second purpose was to identify personality characteristics that may comprise the core of perceived moral exceptionalism across people. To the …
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Divergence and Disagreement in Contemporary Anarchist Communism: Social Ecology and Anarchist Primitivism
… intentions of the writers, the high levels of disagreement can be accounted for.
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Verbal Disagreement in Saudi Arabic and British English Casual Conversations: Cross-cultural and gender comparisons
… and differences in the realization of disagreement exchanges in Saudi Arabic (SaA) and British English (BrE) casual conversations. It particularly focuses on both pragmatic and structural patterns of naturally-occurring disagreements in the two cultural groups. In addition to examining …
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Persistent Disagreement Between Recreation Therapists and Patients on Leisure-Related Problems, Treatment Goals and Treatment Method
… was to examine the occurrence of persistent disagreement between recreation therapist and patients, in addition to factors associated with and consequences related to this disagreement. Specifically, the persistence of disagreement was scrutinized over a specified time period.
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Multimodal (im)politeness: the verbal, prosodic and non-verbal realization of disagreement in German and New Zealand English
… if potential differences influence how polite a disagreement is perceived to be. The investigation showed that, on a verbal level, Germans have a preference for more concise disagreements, with a more direct and explicit disagreeing style, producing a large number of strengthening devices, while …
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