Book contents
- The Dialogical Mind
- The Dialogical Mind
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I ‘Superior’ and ‘inferior’ thinking and knowing
- 1 From mythos and irrationality towards logos and rationality
- 2 Towards Giambattista Vico’s common sense
- 3 Common sense in humanities and social sciences
- Conclusion to Part I
- Part II Dialogicality as epistemology of daily life and of professional practices
- References
- Index
3 - Common sense in humanities and social sciences
from Part I - ‘Superior’ and ‘inferior’ thinking and knowing
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2016
- The Dialogical Mind
- The Dialogical Mind
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I ‘Superior’ and ‘inferior’ thinking and knowing
- 1 From mythos and irrationality towards logos and rationality
- 2 Towards Giambattista Vico’s common sense
- 3 Common sense in humanities and social sciences
- Conclusion to Part I
- Part II Dialogicality as epistemology of daily life and of professional practices
- References
- Index
Summary
Bauer refers to three types of attitudes to common sense apparent in the articles published in the Journal Public Understanding of Science. These types summarise the issues discussed in this Chapter. One type is in the ‘tradition of debunking’ common sense. Common sense is ‘the place of superstitions, half-knowledge, complete and utter ignorance, misunderstanding and mumbo-jumbo, and virulent memes that give rise to antiscience’ (Bauer, 2009, p. 379). This type corresponds to the epistemological rupture between science and common sense. The second kind attempts to repair deluded or ignorant common sense and make it the ‘target of interventions’. Such contributions highlight public images and attempt to change people’s views in order to promote science and new technology, in particular among the young. This type appears to correspond to the idea of continuity between common sense and science and to the perspective of scientification of common sense. Finally, the third kind of attitude views common sense as a resource of knowledge; it is embedded in tradition and culture and it manifests itself in and through social representations enriching and innovating the understanding of social phenomena. This attitude is embodied in the theory of social representations and heterogeneous forms of knowledge.
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- The Dialogical MindCommon Sense and Ethics, pp. 62 - 85Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016