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Feyerabend and manufactured disagreement: reflections on expertise, consensus, and science policy (2021)

Shaw, Jamie (Author)

Synthese
Volume: 198
Issue: 25
Pages: 6053-6084

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-020-02538-x

URI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02538-x

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Science and society Policy making Controversies and disputes Science and politics Philosophy of science Pluralism (philosophy) 20th century Feyerabend, Paul K.

Feyerabend is infamous for his defense of pluralism, which he extends to every topic he discusses. Disagreement, a by-product of this pluralism, becomes a sign of flourishing critical communities. In Feyerabend’s political works, he extends this pluralism from science to democratic societies and incorporates his earlier work on scientific methodology into a procedure for designing just policy. However, a description and analysis of Feyerabend’s conception of disagreement is lacking. In this paper, I reconstruct and assess Feyerabend’s conception of disagreement, with a particular emphasis on the role of experts, and its role in the formation of science policy. I go on to assess this argument in light of recent literature on manufactured disagreement on politically contentious science policy (Oreskes and Conway in Merchants of doubt: How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming, Bloomsbury Publishing, Indianapolis, 2011). I conclude by suggesting some prospects and problems for de-idealizing Feyerabend’s position on disagreement to see whether it may be plausibly implemented.

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