Disagreeing despite the data: the destruction of the factual commons

Auteur :
Apgar, David
Éditeur :
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN :
9781666958249
Date de publication :
19 août 2024
Dimensions :
23,7 x 15,8 x 1,8 cm
Poids :
413 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.