#Epistemology

Now reading: ‘A Large and Long Standing Body’: Historical Authority in the Science of Sex (2020), by @jw_lockhart 1/nhttps://twitter.com/jw_lockhart/status/1247907440823283713 "In this chapter, I ... use sociology of science to examine
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The GrayZone “anti-imperialist” types really reminds me of two different sections in two different books: Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s “Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History” and Edward W. Said’s
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Quick thoughts on this excellent article from an IR/social science perspectivehttps://tnsr.org/2020/04/recentering-the-united-states-in-the-historiography-of-american-foreign-relations/ Bessner and Logevall provide an interesting take on a discipline
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BP's new Energy Outlook was as rigorous and thought-provoking as ever, and full of fascinating points. It is a must-read for anyone interested in energy and climate. But there was
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1. This is going to be a personal thread about the experience of working at the intersection of infectious disease modeling and the study of misinformation during the worst pandemic
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Alright, I've made it to my computer before 9am in readiness for the @Monash_MCSHE webinar by Rachel Ellaway. Now, what's the hashtag?? Today Rachel will be talking about moral agency.
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Today, at the #LockdownBestiary, P is for PARROT. This gives this zookeeper an opportunity to revisit interests in parrot language, multilingualism, and the pleasures of nonsense. Or, as I like
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The NPC question has reached critical mass. What's an NPC, how do I know if I am one, how dare you presume to call people NPCs? NPCs come from RPGs,
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A man goes every day to the same teachersThey teach him the same lessonHe hears, but does not listenIs it the lessons of these teachers that you need?You already know
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1. I was walking in the woods yesterday and I had an epiphany. It wasn’t one I wanted to have. I was thinking about today’s class, where we are reading
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A summary of Stephen Hicks' book "Explaining Post-modernism" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005D53DG0/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Postmodernism often bills itself as anti-philosophical, by which it means that
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The quokka is a meme animal that lives on Bald Island on the SW coast of Australia, where it has no natural predators. If you visit this island, it will
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1a/nDear twitter community#rhetoric is a tool to WIN a debateThis account is interested in the eternal, unapologetic search for TRUTH: scienceThis thread lists commonly used rhetorical tricks, logical fallacies and
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1/Donald Trump has ordered the removal of Critical Race Theory from all Federal Government Agencies. Critical Race Theory may look like harmless sensitivity training, but in fact it's the racial
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1/Wokeness is deeply postmodern.Most of you have been told postmodernism contradicts other key elements of wokeness like critical race theory, neo-marxism, and standpoint epistemology, which means wokeness can't be postmodern.This
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Thread on Avani Bansal’s piece in the Wire calling for epistocracy in India in the context of covid response & its failures. Some basic issues (more extended critique to follow
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