[epistemic status: my imprecise summaries of previous attempts]
Well, I guess it depends on what you want to get out of them. I think they can be useful as epistemic tools in the right situation: They tend to work better if they are focused on empirical questions, and they can be help by forcing the collaborators to narrow down broad statements like “democratic decision making is good/bad for organisations”. It’s probably unrealistic however to expect that the collaborators will change their minds completely and arrive at a shared conclusion.
They might also be good for building community trust. My instinct is that it would be really helpful in the current situation if the two sides see that their arguments are being engaged with reasonably by the other side. (see this ac on transgender children transitioning, nobody in the comments expresses anger at the author holding opposite views)
I thought the sense was adversarial collab was a bit overrated.
[epistemic status: my imprecise summaries of previous attempts]
Well, I guess it depends on what you want to get out of them. I think they can be useful as epistemic tools in the right situation: They tend to work better if they are focused on empirical questions, and they can be help by forcing the collaborators to narrow down broad statements like “democratic decision making is good/bad for organisations”. It’s probably unrealistic however to expect that the collaborators will change their minds completely and arrive at a shared conclusion.
They might also be good for building community trust. My instinct is that it would be really helpful in the current situation if the two sides see that their arguments are being engaged with reasonably by the other side. (see this ac on transgender children transitioning, nobody in the comments expresses anger at the author holding opposite views)