Consensus and Dissensus in Science

PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1986:99 - 105 (1986)
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Abstract

This paper couples the variation and selection analogy utilized in evolutionary epistemology with the hermeneutical insight that novel data and theoretical texts are obscure in meaning. Dissensus must be valued as a distancing mechanism of variation on the space of possible meanings while argumentation attacks the initial obscurity. The objection that evolutionary accounts can only describe practice is countered by indicating how dissensus has normative purchase wherever science is producing novel text.

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