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Cover Story: Can reasonable people disagree? I f equally intelligent, knowledgeable, open-minded people disagree, isn’t i t rational for both sides to suspend judgement? Given how widespread disagreement is, does this mean that we know a lot less than we think we know? Philosophers, unsurprisingly, disagree.

FORUM 77 Begging to differ Catherine Z Elgin 77 Moral disagreements

Russ Shafer-Landau

83 Religious disagreements Graham Oppy

90 Aesthetic disagreements Cain Todd

95 Peer disagreements Jennifer Lackey

BOOKS 111 Massimo Pigliucci on Why Does the

World Exist?

113 Clayton Littlejohn on Rational Causation 115 James Stacey Taylor on What Money

Can’t Buy and Why Some Things Should Not be for Sale

119 Anne Jaap Jacobson on The Second

Sexism

121 Russell Blackford on The New Religious

Intolerance

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