Disagreeing despite the Data

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.

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.

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