David Apgar

Disagreeing despite the Data

The Destruction of the Factual Commons

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 387g
• ISBN-13: 9781666958249
• ISBN-10: 1666958247
• Artikelnr.: 70441397

Autorenporträt

David Apgar manages economic-development and climate-tech funds and has taught risk management and information theory at Johns Hopkins SAIS, George Washington University, and Özyegin Üniversitesi.

Inhaltsangabe

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