Roberto Gronda
List of John Benjamins publications for which Roberto Gronda plays a role.
Articles
2020 Chapter 6. What is the meaning of biodiversity? A pragmatist approach to an intrinsically interdisciplinary concept Controversies and Interdisciplinarity: Beyond disciplinary fragmentation for a new knowledge model, Allwood, Jens, Olga Pombo, Clara Renna and Giovanni Scarafile (eds.), pp. 115–131 | Chapter
The preservation of biodiversity is one of the greatest concerns of our age. However, a satisfactory operational definition of biodiversity is still lacking, and it is likely that it won’t be achieved in the near future. In their practice of measurement scientists adopt a pluralistic and… read more
2018 Chapter 3. Rethinking the notion of public: A pragmatist account Science and Democracy: Controversies and conflicts, Barrotta, Pierluigi and Giovanni Scarafile (eds.), pp. 53–70 | Chapter
Recent times have witnessed that democracy and science may easily be in conflict. The goal of the paper is to reframe the issue of the relations between democracy and science in a way that makes it possible to preserve the distinction between the two, while rejecting the pessimistic view that their… read more