Disagreeing Despite the Data - The Destruction of the Factual Commons

Drawing on twentieth-century philosophy of science and language, this book identifies three requirements for widespread factual agreement: a pervasive habit of checking assumptions, densely connected communities, and projects that straddle those communities. When communities are insulated from each other, belief segregation follows.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Fallibilism and Critical Thinking
Chapter 2: Critical Thinking and Complexity
Chapter 3: The Limited Language of the Lone Speaker
Chapter 4: The Partial View of the Lone Observer
Chapter 5: Radical Interpretation and the Factual Commons
Chapter 6: The Physics of the Factual Commons
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

David Apgar is adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, George Washington University, and Özye¿in Üniversitesi.

Product details

• Authors: David Apgar, Apgar David
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.08.2024
• EAN: 9781666958249
• ISBN: 978-1-66695-824-9
• No. of pages: 156
• Series: Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Social, group or collective psychology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge