Oslo Mind, Language and Epistemology Network Seminar: Hugo Ribeiro Mota, Political deep disagreements, structural oppression, and argumentation

This paper explores social deep disagreements, which are persistent, political, and collective disagreements over structural social issues. These disagreements are caused by structural oppression and harmful forms of epistemic exclusion, such as epistemic oppression. The paper examines three approaches from argumentation theory that explain the doxastic aspects of deep disagreements - Rational Dialogue, Rational Persuasion, and Social Psychology approaches - and argues that they all fail to address the challenges posed by structural oppression. To address these challenges, the paper adopts an approach that includes attention and trust as necessary conditions for argumentation within unjust settings.