Epistemic Paternalism by Guy Axtell
This volume considers forms of information manipulation and restriction in contemporary society, paying special attention to contemporary paternalistic practices in big data and scientific research, as the way in which the flow of information or knowledge might be curtailed by the manipulations of a small body of experts or algorithms.-
Taking Conspiracy Theories Seriously
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The Epistemology of Disasters and Social Change
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Philosophical Interventions in Neoliberal Higher Education
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Veritocracy
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Philosophy in the Age of Science?
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Minority Report
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Democratization and Struggles Against Injustice
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Overcoming Epistemic Injustice
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Social Epistemology and Technology
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Social Epistemology and Epistemic Agency
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The Future of Social Epistemology
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Socrates Tenured
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Democratic Problem-Solving
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Heraclitus Redux: Technological Infrastructures and Scientific Change
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Rorty, Public Reason, and Modernity's Crisis of Critique
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The Social Production of Knowledge in a Neoliberal Age
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For and Against Scientism
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Interdisciplinarity and the Art of Human Connection
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The Kuhnian Image of Science
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Institutional Epistemology and Extreme Inequality
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Disagreeing despite the Data
Guy Axtell is Professor of Philosophy at Radford University, working primarily in social epistemology, and philosophy of the sciences. His volume Knowledge, Belief, and Character (Rowman & Littlefield 2000) was the first edited collection in the area of virtue/vice epistemology; he has since published two monographs along with numerous articles.
Amiel Bernal received his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech’s ASPECT Program (The Alliance for Social, Political, and Economic Thought). Currently he teaches at Virginia Military Institute and Radford University. His research focus is in social epistemology, epistemic injustice, and ethics.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781786615732 |
| ISBN 10 | 1786615738 |
| Title | Epistemic Paternalism |
| Author | Guy Axtell |
| Series | Collective Studies In Knowledge And Society |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2020-06-22 |
| Number of pages | 332 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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