Scientific objectivity depends on a prior comprehensive rationality of free dialogue.

Evidence

Habermas took Popper’s idea that scientific objectivity was grounded in critical, rational discussion, and contrasted it with the necessity for a `comprehensive rationality’ of free dialogue between communicating persons, which would be the condition of possibility for such an idea to be realized if the model of the advancement of knowledge in the natural sciences were abandoned. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 599

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces Habermas’s concept of comprehensive rationality grounded in communication rather than method.
• XREF: connects to: Popper located objectivity in science’s institutions, not individual minds — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 87; Scientific objectivity requires severing the observer’s connective relationship with the observed — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 152; Habermas grounded Popper’s rational discussion ideal in a comprehensive rationality of free dialogue — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2416 (+7 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Popper located objectivity in science’s institutions, not individual minds — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 87; Scientific objectivity requires severing the observer’s connective relationship with the observed — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 152; Habermas grounded Popper’s rational discussion ideal in a comprehensive rationality of free dialogue — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2416 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Habermas grounded Popper’s rational discussion ideal in a comprehensive rationality of free dialogue #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2416
• Negative dialectics preserves undefined experience as a counterweight to philosophies of science #complicates (0.74) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2578