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Courtesy of the South Puget Sound SOPHIA Chapter
By Dr. Sergia Hay, Dr. Michael Rings, and Matthew Salzano
First used on March 5, 2018 at Pacific Lutheran University
Topic:
Disagreement: Strategies for Talking Across Divides
Hay
Questions for conversation:
1) How can we have productive discussions when there is disagreement?
Rings
2) What does it mean to have a “productive” discussion when there is disagreement?
3) Can tools from philosophy help in these discussions?
4) What are the roles of reason and emotion in these discussions?
Salzano
5) Are there strategies to use (or avoid) in these discussions?
6) Are there times when it is advisable not to engage in these discussions?
Additional Resources:
David Bohm, On Dialogue (New York: Routledge Press 2004), http://amzn.to/2FCdb75.
Daniel Dennett, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (New York: Norton Publishing, 2014), http://amzn.to/2DeUS2C.
John Dewey, How We Think (New York: Dover Thrift Editions, 1910/2002), http://amzn.to/2Fplxjn.
Jennifer Lackey, The Epistemology of Disagreement (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016), http://amzn.to/2GarlKy.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (New York: Dover Thrift Editions, 1859/2002), http://amzn.to/2ty2PQY.
“Disagreement,” Philosophy Talk [Radio], Sunday, December 5, 2010, https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/disagreement.
Bryan Frances, “Disagreement,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2018, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/disagreement/.