Cogent Science in Context - The Science Wars, Argumentation Theory, and Habermas

Informationen zum Autor William Rehg is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. He is the translator of Jürgen Habermas's Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (1996) and the coeditor of Deliberative Democracy: Essays on Reason and Politics and Pluralism (1997) and The Pragmatic Turn: The Transformation of Critical Theory (2001), all published by the MIT Press. Klappentext Recent years have seen a series of intense, increasingly acrimonious debates over the status and legitimacy of the natural sciences. These ¿science wars¿ take place in the public arena--with current battles over evolution and global warming--and in academia, where assumptions about scientific objectivity have been called into question. Given these hostilities, what makes a scientific claim merit our consideration? In Cogent Science in Context, William Rehg examines what makes scientific arguments cogent--that is, strong and convincing--and how we should assess that cogency. Drawing on the tools of argumentation theory, Rehg proposes a multidimensional, context-sensitive framework both for understanding the cogency of scientific arguments and for conducting cooperative interdisciplinary assessments of the cogency of actual scientific arguments. Zusammenfassung A proposal for an interdisciplinary! context-sensitive framework for assessing the strength of scientific arguments that melds Jurgen Habermas's discourse theory and sociological contextualism.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: William Rehg, William (S. J.) Rehg, William (Saint Louis University) Rehg
• Con la collaborazione di: Thomas McCarthy (Editore)
• Editore: The MIT Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.10.2011
• EAN: 9780262516600
• ISBN: 978-0-262-51660-0
• Pagine: 360
• Serie: Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought; Studies in Contemporary German; Cogent Science in Context; Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought; Studies in Contemporary German
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali