Journal of Philosophical Research

ONLINE FIRST

published on August 11, 2021

Margaret Greta Turnbull

Dinosaurs and Reasonable Disagreement

Most philosophical discussions of disagreement have used idealized disagreements to draw conclusions about the nature of disagreement. I closely examine an actual, non-idealized disagreement in dinosaur paleobiology and show that it can not only teach us about the features of some of our real world disagreements, but can help us to argue for the possibility of reasonable real world disagreement.