There are five basic ways to resolve disagreements: keep arguing until capitulation, compromise, locate an ambiguity or contextual factors, accept Pyrrhonian skepticism, and adopt relativism. Relativism is perhaps the most radical and least popular solution to a disagreement, and its defenders generally think the best motivator for relativism is to be found in disputes over predicates of person...

Abstract Is it possible to disagree with someone without considering them cognitively flawed? The answer seems be a resounding yes : disagreeing doesn't entail thinking less of them. You can and not think that they are unreasonable. Deep disagreements, however, may challenge this assumption. A disagreement is deep when involves many interrelated issues, including the proper way resolve disagree...

Procedural voice is a widely used and effective means to reduce or eliminate conflict. Moral disagreements, however, are particularly inflammatory, divisive, and difficult to manage. The current article reports two studies that demonstrated the unique challenge that moral disagreements pose. Specifically, the studies tested the extent to which procedural voice affected justice judgements, group...

We describe a robust, unsupervised method of automatic gender identification from speech. We first design a baseline gender classifier based on MFCC features, and add a second classifier that uses context-dependent but text-independent pitch features. The results of these classifiers are then examined for disagreements in gender classification. Any disagreements are resolved by the use of a nov...

Policy analyses frequently clash. Their disagreements stem from many sources, including models, empirical estimates, and values such as who should have standing and how different criteria should be weighted. We provide a simple taxonomy of disagreement, identifying distinct categories within both the positive and values domains of normative policy analysis. Using disagreements in climate policy...

Four studies examined associations between E. L. Deci and R. M. Ryan's (1985, 2000) construct of autonomy, responses to relationship disagreements, and dissatisfaction after conflict. In Study 1, diary data showed that trait autonomy predicted relationship autonomy, which in turn predicted relative satisfaction after disagreements. In Study 2, trait autonomy predicted relationship autonomy, whi...

As pointed out by Woodall and Montgomery (1999), there are a number of disputes in the area of statistical quality control (SQC). There are differences of opinion in all areas of statistical science, but disagreements tend to be more common and more intense in the quality area. This could be due in part to the diversity of those working in the quality field, including quality gurus and their fo...

Abstract The metalinguistic approach to conceptual engineering construes disputes between (what I shall call) linguistic reformers and conservatives as disagreements on how best use particular expressions. As the present paper argues, this has various merits. However, it was recently criticised in Cappelen’s seminal Fixing Language (2018). Cappelen raises an important objection against picture....