Members of different social groups often hold widely divergent public beliefs regarding the nature of the world in which they live. We develop a model that can accommodate such public disagreement, and use it to explore questions concerning the aggregation of distributed information and the consequences of social integration. The model involves heterogeneous priors, private information, and rep...

When theorising about disagreement, it is tempting to begin with a person's belief that p and ask what mental state one must have in order disagree it. This the wrong way go; paper argues people may also attitudes are not beliefs. It then examines whether several existing theories of disagreement can account for this phenomenon. its own normative theory gives best account, so, given there good ...