Cogent science in context : the science wars, argumentation theory, and Habermas

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rehg, William
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
Colección:Studies in contemporary German social thought.
Materias:
Habermas, Jürgen
Ciencia > Filosofía.
Debates
Persuasión (Retórica)
Acceso en línea:http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0904/2008029433.html
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Science wars, new and old
  • Science as argumentative practice
  • Kuhn's gap: from logic to sociology
  • Closing the gap: three rhetorical perspectives on science
  • Postscript 1: The return of the logical: Achinstein's realist theory of evidence
  • Habermas's critical theory and science: truth and accountability
  • Habermas's theory of argumentation as an integrated model of cogency
  • Argumentation at fermilab: putting the Habermasian model to work
  • Postscript 2: Who's afraid of SSK? The problem and possibilities of interdisciplinary cooperation
  • Adjusting the pragmatic turn: lessons from ethnomethodology
  • Three dimensions of argument cogency
  • a contextualist case study
  • Critical science studies and the good society.

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