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Jonathan Rauch: "Why we must prefer pluralism to orthodoxy"

2021-08-29T18:03:47.558Z


INTERVIEW - Essayist Jonathan Rauch, senior fellow at the Brooking Institution (think-tank) and author of The Constitution of Knowledge. A Defense of Truth ("The constitution of knowledge. A defense of the truth"), pleads for a rehabilitation of the scientific method in the public debate.


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- What is this "constitution of knowledge" that you describe in your book?

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Every company, large or small, needs a system for resolving disagreements over facts and opinions on matters of public interest.

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, the typical method has been to rely on a certain variety of authorities: priests, sacred texts, oracles, dictators, politburo, etc.

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