On Losing Disagreements: Spencer’s Attitudinal Relativism
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In ‘Reversibility or Disagreement’ (this journal), we posed a dilemma for invariantists about epistemic expressions—that is, for those who claim that expressions such as ‘might’ and ‘probably’ make a contextinvariant contribution to the truth conditions of the utterances to which they belong. The crux of our dilemma is simple: invariantists, we argued, cannot make sense of a phenomenon that we dubbed reversibility without sacrificing the claims about disagreement to which they appeal in arguing for their position over the contextualist alternative. In ‘Disagreement and Attiudinal Relativism’ (this journal), Jack Spencer claims to have ‘found a path between the horns of Ross and Schroeder’s dilemma’ (p. 33). He argues that by adopting a position that he calls ‘attitudinal relativism,’ the invariantist can account for reversibility ‘and for the disagreements that go missing under contextualism’ (p. 4). He writes:
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