Voicing Dissent

Casey Rebecca Johnson is an assistant professor of Philosophy in the Politics and Philosophy Department at the University of Idaho. Prior to joining that department, Dr. Johnson was a post-doctoral fellow on the project on Humility and Conviction in Public Life at the University of Connecticut’s Humanities Institute.

• Introduction Casey Rebecca Johnson 1. Reasonable Disagreement Catherine Elgin 2. Disagreements, of Beliefs and Otherwise Duncan Pritchard 3. Dissent: Ethics and Epistemology Sanford Goldberg 4. Dissent: Good, Bad and Reasonable Klemens Kappel 5. Silence and Objecting Jennifer Lackey 6. For the Sake of Argument: The Nature and Extent of Our Obligation to Voice Disagreement Casey Rebecca Johnson 7. Eloquent Silences: Silence and Dissent Alessandra Tanesini 8. Epistemic Arrogance and the Value of Political Dissent Michael Patrick Lynch 9. Emancipatory Political Dissent in Practice: Insights from Social Theory Rachel Ann McKinney 10. Speaking and Listening to Acts of Political Dissent Matthew Chrisman and Graham Hubbs 11. Responding to Harmful Speech: The More Speech Response, Counter Speech, and the Complexity of Language Use Mary Kate McGowan

"This is a well-considered and lively collection of essays on the norms bearing on public disagreement. After the fall of 2016, with Brexit having passed in England and Donald Trump elected President of the United States, the question of what role protest and dissent plays in properly run public discourse became a pressing question for many academics. This book, then, is particularly timely . . . Social epistemologists, argumentation theorists, and political philosophers interested in deliberative democracy will find a great deal to appreciate in this volume." – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews