Disagreeing despite the Data

Disagreeing despite the Data
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 157
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ISBN-10 : 9781666958256
ISBN-13 : 1666958255
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Book Synopsis Disagreeing despite the Data by : David Apgar

Download or read book Disagreeing despite the Data written by David Apgar and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-08-19 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disagreeing despite the Data: The Destruction of the Factual Commons examines the pressing problem of factual disagreement between social groups, suggesting that the belief segregation underway in the United States may be irreversible. David Apgar draws on the work of twentieth-century philosophers of science and language—especially Popper, Wittgenstein, and Davidson—to identify three requirements for factual agreement to be possible at all: a pervasive habit of checking assumptions, densely connected communities, and projects that straddle those communities. The growing refusal to test assumptions and individual isolation can be remedied by critical thinking and community building. Factual agreement between groups is impossible without shared projects or other meaningful interaction, however, and a large part of American society has insulated itself from the rest. Without shared projects, communities lose the ability to tell whether they agree or not regardless of the words they use. Disagreeing despite the Data looks at the destructive effects of belief segregation with similar roots in several dissimilar developing countries on a path wide enough for richer ones, like the United States, to follow.


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