Shapin’s London Review of Books review of Michael Polanyi and His Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science by Mary Jo Nye. (Both Hayek and Oakeshott are mentioned by Shapin). Michael Polanyi lives on in the footnotes. If you want to invoke the idea of ‘tacit knowledge’, Polanyi is your reference of choice. You’ll probably…
Some two years ago I trailed this book. Helen Longino reviews Ana Cordeiro dos Santos’ book. EpistemologyHelen Longinosocial epistemology
Check out two forthcoming papers from Rob Rupert, one of the sharpest minds around: 1. Against Group Cognitive States (forthcoming in S. Chant and G. Preyer (eds.), From Individual to Collective Intentionality. No listing on OUP’s website yet). English users are not fazed by such sentences as “Microsoft intends to develop a new operating system” and…
I want to bring your attention to the primary EPISTEME url. No longer will the extentions eu.com/us.com be valid. Here is Cambridge University Press’ EPISTEME page. Cambridge University PressEPISTEMEEpistemologysocial epistemology
My chum and the new president of the Michael Oakeshott Association, Elizabeth Corey, has just had this article published in First Things. Since this article is by subscription, I will only post a couple of extracts that caught my eye. Elizabeth is an excellent scholar whose chapter entitled “The Religious Sensibility of Michael Oakeshott” will be…
Here is a rather scathing review of David Weinberger’s Too Big To Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now that the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room. The renaissance of Marshall McLuhan in the era of the Web is disappointing for a number of reasons, not the least of…
To coincide with the move to Cambridge University Press here are some links: Leaflet (pdf): please distribute EPISTEME @ CUP EPISTEME website Cambridge University PressEPISTEMEEpistemologyPhilosophysocial epistemology
Details of next year’s conference have just been announced. privacysecrecysocial epistemology
The latest and final issue of EPISTEME is now available. As of the next issue (9) EPISTEME will be published by Cambridge University Press. Cambridge University PressEPISTEMEEpistemologyInteractive EpistemologyPhilosophysocial epistemology
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