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Category Archives: Stephen Turner
L. J. Henderson, Practice, and the Harvard View of Science by Stephen P. Turner & Lawrence Nichols
ChatGPT gave me the highlights of this recent essay: Turner and Nichols’s piece on L. J. Henderson is juicy for your project. It cuts right to the themes we’ve been tracking about expertise, authority, and the social construction of “what … Continue reading
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Cognitive Science and the Social: A Primer
ChatGPT gave me the juiciest bits from this 2018 book: Reductionism critique – Author Stephen Turner jabs at the enthusiasm for explaining social life in purely cognitive/neural terms, noting how easily “cognitive” talk reifies the brain into an autonomous agent. … Continue reading
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Megyn Kelly on Russiagate and the New York Times
Megyn: When I woke up Wednesday morning and checked my podcast feed, I saw the New York Times’s The Daily Podcast, which I often listen to, and they had finally gotten around to covering all of the Russiagate revelations that … Continue reading
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Why Do Smart News Operations Sound So Uniformly Dumb So Often?
I love the news. I subscribe to Apple News Plus, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times and numerous book reviews (such as the New York Review of … Continue reading
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The most powerful systems of epistemic closure in America today
Written with ChatGPT: Epistemic closure = when a community defines what can and cannot be questioned, and enforces consensus not through argument but by gatekeeping who counts as credible. Stephen P. Turner’s point is that closure is inevitable; the question … Continue reading
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Stephen Turner On The Bell Curve
In his 2013 book The Politics of Expertise, Stephen Turner wrote: Research on the genetic background of criminals has been denounced as “racist” and government agencies have been intimidated into withdrawing support. Studies of race and intelligence, similarly, have been … Continue reading
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What Goes Unsaid In Stephen P. Turner’s Autobiography Mad Hazard: A Life in Social Theory?
Grok says: Stephen Turner’s memoir is candid about his intellectual journey, family history, and academic career, but it is also restrained—framed as a “life and times” reflection rather than a confessional. He explicitly disclaims bitterness or triumph in the preface, … Continue reading
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Politics As Resource Distribution
There seems to be a strong belief among the elite, as exemplified by the 2004 book What’s The Matter With Kansas?, that politics should primarily be about resource distribution. I moved to America in 1977 when I was 11. By … Continue reading
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Explaining the Normative by Stephen Turner
Amazon.com notes: Normativity is what gives reasons their force, makes words meaningful, and makes rules and laws binding. It is present whenever we use such terms as ‘correct,’ ‘ought,’ ‘must,’ and the language of obligation, responsibility, and logical compulsion. Yet … Continue reading
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The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking
From this 2025 book by smoking hot Cambridge University neuoroscience and politics professor Leor Zmigrod: I believe that we can judge an ideology based on what believing in it does to human bodies and brains; on whether being a passionate … Continue reading
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