Category Archives: Tacit

Yes, Minister

Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister dramatize Turner’s argument about tacit knowledge as well as anything in popular form has. Antony Jay (1930-2016) and Jonathan Lynn (b. 1943) built the shows on long interviews with civil servants, and they caught … Continue reading

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The Genetic Component Of The Tacit

Stephen Turner’s critique of tacit knowledge is primarily epistemological and sociological. He is concerned with the impossibility of collective transmission, with the ideological functions of tacit knowledge claims, and with the way appeals to shared background naturalize what are contested … Continue reading

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The Star Chamber of Stanford

David Pinsof’s misunderstanding essay applies to Rony Guldmann’s memoir, and in ways that cut against Guldmann more sharply than they do against his faculty antagonists. Start with Stanford Law professor Joe Bankman’s early response to the draft of Conservative Claims … Continue reading

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