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Digital technologies are transforming security governance, bringing new risks and opportunities. The resulting uncertainty creates interpretative contests about what these new challenges are and who can – and should – address them.
A. Obendiek, T. Seidl
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Why Won’t You Listen To Me? Predictive Neurotechnology and Epistemic Authority
From epileptic seizures to depressive symptoms, predictive neurotechnologies are used for a large range of applications. In this article we focus on advisory devices; namely, predictive neurotechnology programmed to detect specific neural events (e.g ...
Alessio Tacca, F. Gilbert
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“Religious authority” remains a ubiquitous but controversial term of comparative analysis. In Islamic studies, authority is generally personified in the form of the ulama and most often viewed through Weber’s lens of charismatic, legal-rational, and ...
Ali-Reza Bhojani, Morgan Clarke
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Art markets, epistemic authority, and the institutional curation of knowledge
The recent proliferation of data about art prices has been interpreted as the democratization of a formerly secretive economic sphere. Contesting this idea, I argue that such data is collected, controlled, and disseminated by international art dealers ...
Kathryn Brown
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We develop an integrative conceptual framework and research agenda for studying epistemic authorities in the digital age. Consulting epistemic authorities (e.g., professional experts, well-informed laypeople, technologies) can be an efficient fast ...
Anne Bartsch +8 more
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Authority as epistemic capital [PDF]
The article proposes that authority denotes an actor’s appeals or other references to objects or facts that she expects others to respect or fear.
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Authority, Authenticity, and the Epistemic Legacies of Cold War Area Studies
This article examines the history of knowledge production about the former Eastern Bloc in the American and Polish academic contexts. It explores how debates about authority and authenticity are embedded in the deeper histories of area studies and in ...
Kristen Ghodsee, Agnieszka Mrozik
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Participatory Designs and Epistemic Authority in Knowledge Platforms for Sustainability
Expert organizations increasingly adopt participatory strategies to strengthen their knowledge claims. We introduce the notion of knowledge platforms for sustainability to conceptualize expert organizations that not only rhetorically embrace but also ...
Alejandro Esguerra, Sandra van der Hel
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The Future of Research in Cognitive Robotics: Foundation Models or Developmental Cognitive Models?
Research in cognitive robotics founded on principles of developmental psychology and enactive cognitive science would yield what we seek in autonomous robots: the ability to perceive its environment, learn from experience, anticipate the outcome of events, act to pursue goals, and adapt to changing circumstances without resorting to training with ...
David Vernon
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In this article, we examine how journalists try to uphold ideals of objectivity, clarity, and epistemic authority when using four overlapping terms: fake news, junk news, misinformation, and disinformation.
Johan Farkas, Sabina Schousboe
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