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But also reminding people that disciplines are in a way, like a — they’re a fiction! If we look at the history of the academy, the way we have separated the epistemological world into disciplines has shifted dramatically over thousands of years. So the disciplines we have today are in part a historical accident. They are perpetuated through funding... See more

Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab • Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab

“The Radical Egalitarian Principle: Like the simple egalitarian principle, but the beliefs of persons in historically oppressed classes or groups get special consideration.” 24 This is at the core of “epistemic injustice” scholarship, which has characterized much of Theory since 2010. It relies on standpoint theory and the belief that all ideas are

Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

Ontological pluralism is a commitment to multiple realities, many of which overlap, but some of which remain (at least for now) irreconcilable. It is not a commitment to tolerance of multiple perspectives on a single reality. This latter option, as Bryant points out, would be a rather trivial form of pluralism. It is also a rather colonialist and s... See more

Matthew David Segall • Life in the Pluriverse: Towards a Realistic Pluralism

Committed to reducing the social inequalities and loosening the traditional disciplinary boundaries that subtend the academy, we aim to facilitate freedom for everyone’s curiosity to pursue seemingly incommensurable ideas and applications.

Perry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection

But we are working on it. We are a long way from the world in which all knowledge is equally accessible. Hopefully someday our patchwork of intentionally-inefficient libraries will turn into a free storehouse of humanity’s recorded knowledge and creativity. In the meantime, however, we need to focus on getting good and thoughtful material in as man... See more

Nathan Robinson • The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free ❧ Current Affairs

By the early 2000s, feminism had been almost completely subsumed by gender studies, which had adopted both the postmodern knowledge principle—that objective knowledge cannot be obtained—and the postmodern political principle—that society is structured into systems of power and privilege.

Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

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Moya Bailey • #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice

More recently, new sites like Sci-Hub and LibGen have achieved far faster and more complete results by playing outside the rules and essentially making every academic paper in the world free of charge, to anyone, at any time, in any country – including poor people in poor places without access to expensive journal subscriptions. Let's call this the... See more

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Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab • Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab

Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

Matthew David Segall • Life in the Pluriverse: Towards a Realistic Pluralism

Perry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection

Nathan Robinson • The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free ❧ Current Affairs

Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI

Moya Bailey • #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice

Crypto Sci-Hub and the Decentralization of Science