Cogent Science in Context: The Science Wars, Argumentation Theory, and Habermas Book

Introduction: Science Wars, New and Old 1

I The Argumentative Turn in Science Studies 15

1 Science as Argumentative Practice 17

2 Kuhn's Gap: From Logic to Sociolog 33

3 Closing the Gap: Three Rhetorical Perspectives on Science 57

Postscript I: The Return of the Logical Achinstein's Realist Theory of Evidence 81

II Integrating Perspectives: Habermas's Discourse Theory 99

4 Habermas's Critical Theory and Science: Truth and Accountability 101

5 Habermas's Theory of Argumentation as an Integrated Model of Cogency 129

6 Argumentation at Fermilab: Putting the Habermasian Model to Work 163

Postscript II: Who's Afraid of SSK? The Problem and Possibilities of Interdisciplinary Cooperation 195

III Toward a Critical Contextualist Framework for Interdisciplinary Assessment 211

7 Adjusting the Pragmatic Turn: Lessons from Ethnomethodology 213

8 Three Dimensions of Argument Cogency-A Contextualist Case Study 241

9 Critical Science Studies and the Good Society 269

Notes 297

References 313

Index 337