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A philosopher unpacks the ‘ethics of belief’ for an age awash in bad information.
Astrology and astronomy were once practiced side by side by scientists like Galileo and Kepler. And they’re more similar than you might think.
Those with strong beliefs tend to be admired.
Modern western science must be stripped of the epistemological and methodological privileges it enjoys.
If you’re committed to a belief, it’s hard to let go. Psychology and philosophy provide different ways to think about how skeptics respond to counterevidence.
It’s time to (do more than) talk about knowledge. Universities must take leadership in helping develop students capacity to recognise different kinds of knowledge and work flexibly.
Amos Tutuola has contributed significantly to the resilience of ways of life and worldviews that could easily have disappeared under the weight of colonialism, globalisation and the market economy.
Dr Joe Gumbula was a master-singer of Manikay, the exquisite Yolŋu tradition of public ceremonial song. While the songs contain incredible knowledge, scholars have rarely treated them as an intellectual tradition.
The process of decolonising research methodology is an ethical, ontological and political exercise rather than simply one of approach and ways of producing knowledge.
Asking whether machines can really understand us is meaningless.
It’s not what you think you know, but how you can justify your knowledge that is most important.
Phrases like “knowledge production” conceal the fact that knowledge answers to something beyond itself and beyond us. To produce knowledge is to find out about something.
How do we determine what is fact? An archaeologist explains how the answer has changed over time and why it matters so much now.
There’s never been greater need for the study of what we don’t know, and why we’re not supposed to know it.
The world around you might be an illusion and you’re really a brain in a vat connected to a supercomputer. Sounds preposterous? But can you prove it’s not true?
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Education; Curriculum Director, UQ Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Education, University of Birmingham
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Professor and Inaugural Director, Indigenous Knowledge Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor in Learning Sciences, University of Sydney
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Professor of Education, University of Sydney
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Professor of Philosophy of Science, Durham University
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Professor of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire
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Chercheuse en développement durable, sciences sociales et technologie, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)
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Distinguished Professor of Curriculum Studies, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies, Lawrence University
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Professor and Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South, University of Bareuth, Germany, University of South Africa
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Full professor, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)
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Professor of Computer Science and Communications, Lancaster University
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Professor, Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town
