Does Every Theory Deserve a Hearing? Evolution, Intelligent Design, and the Limits of Democratic Inquiry

From: The Southern Journal of Philosophy | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Ongoing hostilities between evolution and intelligent design adherents reveal deeper epistemological and ethical crises in American life. First, when adjudicating sociopolitical differences among people, how much epistemological "diversity" can be embraced before the very canons of judgment become suspect? Pragmatist notions of inquiry, warranted assertability, and pluralism can help strike a better balance. Second, the related crisis of factionalized "communities" might be addressed, along Deweyan lines, by the construction of a philosophical "total attitude" redolent of democratic ideals, ...

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