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""Rehg brilliantly summarizes the major debates in philosophy of science over the nature of discovery, explanation, and persuasion that have occurred over the last half century while also providing the most informed critique of Habermasian discourse theory yet to appear. His judicious use of real -life examples drawn from Fermilab and elsewhere and his extension of argument theory to include the social visions that frame current hot-button academic disputes regarding global warming and Intelligent design make his book extremely timely and indispensable reading for lay persons trying to assess scientific journalism and reporting. Rehg's riveting account of cogency will revolutionize the way critical theorists, logicians, and rhetoricians think about argumentation in general and, more particularly, about how we should assess the social institutionalization of collaborative research and debate in science proper for years to come.""--David Ingram, Loyola University Chicago ""In bringing the disparate poles of Habermasian argumentation theory and the thickly descriptive approach of ethnomethodology together in the form of a new 'critical contextualism,' Rehg has provided a realistic basis for overcoming the 'science wars' divide between the philosophical and the social scientific -- the prescriptive and the descriptive -- approaches to understanding science. Just when 'science studies' has begun to explore a 'normative turn,' Rehg's clearly written and rigorously argued book provides a new interdisciplinary framework and point of departure for charting the way ahead that neither practitioners of science studies, philosophers of science nor science policymakers can afford to ignore."" Lenny Moss , Department of Sociology and Philosophy, University of Exeter

Rehg brilliantly summarizes the major debates in philosophy of science over the nature of discovery, explanation, and persuasion that have occurred over the last half-century while also providing the most informed critique of Habermasian discourse theory yet to appear. His judicious use of real-life examples drawn from Fermilab and elsewhere and his extension of argument theory to include the social visions that frame current hot-button academic disputes regarding global warming and intelligent design make his book extremely timely and indispensable reading for laypersons trying to assess scientific journalism and reporting. Rehg's riveting account of cogency will revolutionize the way critical theorists, logicians, and rhetoricians think about argumentation in general and, more particularly, about how we should assess the social institutionalization of collaborative research and debate in science proper for years to come. --David Ingram, Loyola University Chicago

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William Rehg is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. He is the translator of Jürgen Habermas's Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (1996) and the coeditor of Deliberative Democracy: Essays on Reason and Politics and Pluralism (1997) and The Pragmatic Turn: The Transformation of Critical Theory (2001), all published by the MIT Press.

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