#Epistemology

Julia Leser

_jleser

fellow ethnographers! those of us who are currently doing fieldwork and working with ethnographic methods might be facing extensive challenges in times of #covid19… a thread #ethnography #academictwitter how

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/DECOLONIZINGGENDERThis decolonizing gender event promoted by Billion Dollar brand Lulu Lemon says "resist capitalism."What is decolonizing?Why would I do it to my gender?How do Billion Dollar brands resist capitalism?All this

M_Methuselah

M_Methuselah

So. I've been thinking about the "marketplace of ideas" idea because I've come across disconnected talk about the contagiousness of "bad ideas" and how "good ideas" can't beat "bad ideas"

miv

airamiv__

It is very common for feminists to say : the oppression of women is linked to our bodies. Or: we are oppressed and exploited because of our biology (because we

Max Krahé

maxkrahe

Thread alert I spent most of last year studying #sustainablefinance. The results are now out in a report for @Academie_be & SFPI-FPIM. Here's the gist (, 1/n):https://www.academieroyale.be/Academie/documents/Opinio_SFPI_numerique312

Pranasutra

pranasutra

A thread on quotes from Sri BNK Sharma's magnum opus - "The Philosophy of Sri Madhvacharya".Available for free reading at http://michaelsudduth.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Philosophy-of-Sri-Madhvacharya.pdf "Only an al

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

The longer I spend online, the more true this feels. A big consequence of social atomization is that increasing numbers of people lack a sense of how their thinking stacks

Helen De Cruz

Helenreflects

Some thoughts on sars-cov-2/Covid-19 and how the public should understand itI'm a philosopher of science and work, among other things, on the public understanding of science, and how the public

ardian@ark.page

rdntola

1/ Chaitin's Meta Math is an important book that distinguishes itself not only in the erudition with which it treats the most fundamental questions of our time, but also in

Aslisho Qurboniev

aslishahqurbani

I am reading Ahmed El Shamsy’s recent book on the impact of #printing on modern discourses on #Islamic scholarship. Like his previous book, it is extremely readable and insightful. I

silk sonic slut

AviceBennerCho

okay, here goes: A thread on tips for writing a postgrad research proposal in the Hum/Soc Sciences. There's a lot going on here, so bear with me. all of this

Megan McArdle

asymmetricinfo

Well, I've had the weekend to round up the responses to my column on cancel culture, so now I'll run through them. A lot of them will be familiar from

William Gillis 🏴

rechelon

Domination is an example of a strategy that catalyzes. An individual adopts the strategy of attempting to dominate others and they in response are pressured to change their strategy to

Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🇺🇸

Conaw

I'm committing now to try and publish 365 propositions between now and Christmas 2019 which I think are interesting and plausibly true. 1) It is more important that a proposition

vakibs

vakibs

In this thread, I will discuss a forgotten text "A synopsis of science in Sanskrit and English" by a brilliant Indologist - James Robert Balantyne. I think this text is

Jaambvant

jaambvant

While I was seeking answers to some unformed questions, I stumbled across a great treatise on Yoga (Union). A world view that synthesizes orthogonal. It's a pleasure to share #Shivasutra,