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Disagreeing despite the Data

The Destruction of the Factual Commons

David Apgar

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English
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
19 August 2024
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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Imprint:   Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 237mm,  Width: 158mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   413g
ISBN:   9781666958249
ISBN 10:   1666958247
Series:   Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society
Pages:   156
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for Disagreeing despite the Data: The Destruction of the Factual Commons

Disagreeing despite the Data: The Destruction of the Factual Commons tackles society's gravest threat: the increasing inability to agree on facts and scientific consensus. By pulling together numerous strands of theory and empirical research, Dr. Apgar advances our understanding of why it continues to be so challenging to address.


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