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Category Archives: Stephen Turner
The Changing Temptations Of Science
Stephen Turner published in 2020: The idea of science as a spontaneous order produced by autonomous individuals following their best hunches, the core of the liberal theory of science, became less an accurate description than an expression of nostalgic regret. … Continue reading
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Beyond The Academic Ethic
Philosopher Stephen Turner published this essay in 2019: * the German academic system of the late nineteenth century, which became the model for the modern research university… * Harvard University, for the first three centuries of its existence, was essentially … Continue reading
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LSU spent nearly $1 million on legal fight over firing of coastal researcher Ivor van Heerden
Philosopher Stephen Turner wrote: “A court case after the Katrina disaster gives some indication of the power of the state to coerce consensus. An obscure engineering researcher at Louisiana State University criticized the Army Corps of Engineers, which was responsible … Continue reading
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The Naked State: What the Breakdown of Normality Reveals
Philosopher Stephen Turner contributes a chapter to this 2021 book, Pandemics, Politics, and Society: Critical Perspectives on the Covid-19 Crisis: Giorgio Agamben shocked the world by noting that what “the epidemic has caused to appear with clarity is that the … Continue reading
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The blogosphere and its enemies: the case of oophorectomy
Professor Stephen Turner writes in The Sociological Review in 2013: * The blogosphere is loathed and feared by the press, expert-opinion makers, and representatives of authority generally. Part of this is based on a social theory: that there are implicit … Continue reading
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