Quibbling and the Fallacy of Critical Scholarship: Response to Thorstensen

摘要

In this text, I respond to a paper by Erik Thorstensen (2014) entitled "Public Involvement and Narrative Fallacies of Nanotechnologies." In his paper, Thorstensen critically reviews a previous ELSA project on engagement and nanotechnology known by the acronym DEEPEN. While I agree that the ELSA community could benefit from the critical examination of earlier research, I believe the approach taken by Thorstensen is not a constructive one. My response deals with three main issues: the character of the paper, narrative theory, and interdisciplinarity.