***Cancelled*** Difference of opinion in philosophy

James Chase (University of Tasmania)

***Please note that this talk has been cancelled due to illness***

In the last decade, discussions about peer disagreement, the causes of belief, and the role of intuition in philosophy have fuelled various forms of metaphilosophical relativism or skepticism.  In this paper I consider versions of these views put forward by Steven Hales and Bryan Frances, and by way of a contextual account of the nature of philosophical belief argue against both.

James Chase is a senior lecturer in the Philosophy and Gender Studies Program at the University of Tasmania.  His research interests are in epistemic normativity, vagueness, mixed (epistemic/alethic) modalities and the methodology of analytic philosophy.