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The Fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Librarianship
, 2014 Terminology plays a critical role in understanding any discipline. The terms data, information, knowledge and wisdom are key terms when working with library and information science, thus how they are defined underpin a librarian’s philosophy, which is ...
Trott, Garrett
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The moral psychology of Value Sensitive Design: the methodological issues of moral intuitions for responsible innovation [PDF]
, 2018 This paper argues that although moral intuitions are insufficient for making judgments on new technological innovations, they maintain great utility for informing responsible innovation.
Umbrello, Steven
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article outlines possibilities for counter configurations of data‐based urbanisms, whereby data practices, rather than reproducing logics of urban entrepreneurialism and smart‐city governance, are made from within urban peripheral territories.
Andrés Luque‐Ayala, Rodrigo Firmino
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What is social science if not critical?
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.Abstract This short article represents a contribution to the debate on the motion “Social science is explanation, or it is nothing.” While in the format of parliamentary debating the contribution would fall on the side of the opposition, I will not be arguing against explanation as such.
Jana Bacevic
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Is Intellectual Humility Compatible with Religious Dogmatism? [PDF]
, 2018 Does intellectual humility preclude the possibility of religious dogmatism and firm religious commitments? Does intellectual humility require religious beliefs to be held with diffidence? What is intellectual humility anyway?
Church, Ian M.
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What political theory can learn from conceptual engineering: The case of “corruption”
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Conceptual change is commonplace in political theory. Recent scholarship argues that improving a concept, or “engineering” it, can sharpen its normative and explanatory power. This article illustrates what political theory can learn from conceptual engineering (CE) by examining the evolution of “corruption” as a case study.
Emanuela Ceva, Patrizia Pedrini
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Epistemic Pluralism, Epistemic Relativism and ‘Hinge’ Epistemology [PDF]
, 2017 According to Paul Boghossian (2006, 73) a core tenet of epistemic relativism is what he calls epistemic pluralism, according to which (i) ‘there are many fundamentally different, genuinely alternative epistemic systems’, but (ii) ‘no facts by virtue of which one of these systems is more correct than any of the others’.
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars working on conflict and violence often engage with local organisations, yet the methodological and ethical implications of volunteering‐while‐researching are rarely discussed in writing. This article contributes to debates on decolonizing research by conceptualising volunteering‐while‐researching as a practice that—while imbued with ...
Shona Loong
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