Aviram Sariel
List of John Benjamins publications for which Aviram Sariel plays a role.
Articles
2018 Chapter 6. Save the planet, win the election: A paradox of science and democracy, an Israeli perpetuum mobile and Donald Trump Science and Democracy: Controversies and conflicts, Barrotta, Pierluigi and Giovanni Scarafile (eds.), pp. 109–126 | Chapter
Science and scientific institutions are not necessarily passive players in the power and manipulation games which constitute democratic elections. In this paper, I shall present a seeming paradox, in which a party well-aligned with science is vulnerable to attack which claims access to alternative… read more
2016 Marcelo Dascal’s Theory of Controversies: Reconsideration, adaption, and political implications Controversies, Communication and the Body, Lehmann, Joseph (ed.), pp. 437–460 | Article
In his Theory of Controversies, Marcelo Dascal proposed three types of polemic exchange, in which Controversy was added to the classic types of Discussion and Dispute. For example, in Dascal’s lights, logic is associated with polemic discussions, power manipulations with disputes, and ‘soft logic’… read more