The Nature of Science-Based Controversies

In English The Nature of Science-based Controversies.

The following points will be presented:

1. Political and epistemological reasons for studying science-based controversies.
2. Controversies as conflicts between rival professional groups and incommensurable systems of ideas.
3. Results and discoveries emanating from case studies of science-based controversies: four examples.
4. Towards a theory of science-based controversies.
5. Relations between science-based controversies and knowledge politics.