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  • Expert Authority and the Limits of Critical Thinking

    by Thomas Grundmann ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. There is no doubt that experts play a prominent but controversial role in modern societies. While they constitute an invaluable source of knowledge and represent the gold ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • The Epistemology of Experts

    New Essays

    Edited by Peter Brössel, Anna-Maria Asunta Eder, Thomas Grundmann ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Epistemology
    This volume presents new research on the epistemology of experts. It features original essays from leading epistemologists on this timely topic.Modern societies benefit significantly from a certain kind of epistemic division of labor: they outsource much of their epistemic work to well-trained cognitive experts. However, due to their degree of specialization, cognitive sophistication, and highly ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Experimental Philosophy and its Critics

    Edited by Joachim Horvath, Thomas Grundmann ...
    Experimental philosophy is one of the most recent and controversial developments in philosophy. Its basic idea is rather simple: to test philosophical thought experiments and philosophers’ intuitions about them with scientific methods, mostly taken from psychology and the social sciences. The ensuing experimental results, such as the cultural relativity of certain philosophical intuitions, has ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Epistemology of Fake News

    Edited by Sven Bernecker, Amy K. Flowerree, Thomas Grundmann ...
    Series series Engaging Philosophy
    News is vital for a healthy democracy. Collective decision-making requires accurate, reliable information. Nevertheless, much of the information we encounter is inadequate for this task. And some--peddled by politicians, profiteers, bots and algorithms--is fake. Social media platforms and emerging technologies allow fake news to dominate our information landscape. An adequate understanding our ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

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    Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data

    by Michael P. Lynch ...
    "An intelligent book that struggles honestly with important questions: Is the net turning us into passive knowers? Is it degrading our ability to reason? What can we do about this?" —David Weinberger, Los Angeles Review of BooksWe used to say "seeing is believing"; now, googling is believing. With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world’s information at our fingertips, we no longer trek to the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The New Science of the Mind

    From Extended Mind to Embodied Phenomenology

    by Mark Rowlands ...
    An investigation into the conceptual foundations of a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate all cognition "in the head."There is a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate mental processes exclusively "in the head." Some think that this expanded conception of the mind will be the basis of a new science of the mind. In this book, leading philosopher Mark Rowlands ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Institutional Ethnography

    A Sociology for People

    by Dorothy E. Smith ...
    Series series Gender Lens
    Prominent sociologist Dorothy Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social institutions. Concerned with articulating an inclusive sociology that goes beyond looking at a particular group of people from the detached viewpoint of the researcher, this is a method of inquiry for people, incorporating the expert's research and ... Read more

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  • The Mind's New Science

    A History Of The Cognitive Revolution

    by Howard Gardner ...
    The first full-scale history of cognitive science, this work addresses a central issue: What is the nature of knowledge? ... Read more

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  • The Extended Mind

    The Emergence of Language, the Human Mind, and Culture

    by Robert K. Logan ...
    The ability to communicate through language is such a fundamental part of human existence that we often take it for granted, rarely considering how sophisticated the process is by which we understand and make ourselves understood. In The Extended Mind, acclaimed author Robert K. Logan examines the origin, emergence, and co-evolution of language, the human mind, and culture.Building on his previous ... Read more

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  • Infocracy

    Digitization and the Crisis of Democracy

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    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    The tsunami of information unleashed by digitization is threatening to overwhelm us, drowning us in a sea of frenzied communication and disrupting many spheres of social life, including politics. Election campaigns are now being waged as information wars with bots and troll armies, and democracy is degenerating into infocracy.In this new book, Byung-Chul Han argues that infocracy is the new form ... Read more

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  • Language, Consciousness, Culture

    Essays on Mental Structure

    by Ray S. Jackendoff ...
    Series series Jean Nicod Lectures
    An integrative approach to human cognition that encompasses the domains of language, consciousness, action, social cognition, and theory of mind that will foster cross-disciplinary conversation among linguists, philosophers, psycholinguists, neuroscientists, cognitive anthropologists, and evolutionary psychologists.Ray Jackendoff's Language, Consciousness, Culture represents a breakthrough in ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Methods of Critical Discourse Studies

    Edited by Ruth Wodak, Michael Meyer ...
    Series series Introducing Qualitative Methods series
    Thisis a sophisticated and nuanced introduction to critical discourse analysis (CDA) that covers a range of topics in an accessible, engaging style. With international examples and an interdisciplinary approach, readers gain a rich understanding of the many angles into critical discourse analysis, the fundamentals of how analysis works and examples from written texts, online data and images.This ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD