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  1. Access to knowledge movement
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    Resource Type: Article
  2. The Anatomy of Judgment
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Tracing the emergence of science and the social institutions that govern it, The Anatomy of Judgment is an odyssey into what human thinking or judgment mean.
  3. The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    A handbook in which 'experts on expertise' review knowledge on expertise and expert performance and how experts may differ from non-experts in terms of their development, training, reasoning, knowledge, social support, and innate talent. Methods are described for the study of experts' knowledge and their performance of representative tasks from their domain of expertise. The development of expertise is also studied by retrospective interviews and the daily lives of experts are studied with diaries. In 15 major domains of expertise, the leading researchers summarize our knowledge on the structure and acquisition of expert skill and knowledge and discuss future prospects. General issues that cut across most domains are reviewed in chapters on various aspects of expertise such as general and practical intelligence, differences in brain activity, self-regulated learning, deliberate practice, aging, knowledge management, and creativity.
  4. The Design of Everyday Things
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    A book about the problems of design and how good design can overcome the frustrations of everyday things.
  5. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  6. Harter's Precept: Review of The Social Misconstruction of Reality: Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1997
    Hamilton gives three major examples of erroneous theses that gained the status of fact in social science despite the absence of evidentiary support: (1) Max Weber's thesis that the Protestant Ethic spurred the advance of capitalism; (2) the widely accepted thesis that Hitler's main electoral support came from the lower middle classes (the despised petit bourgeoisie of Marxism); and (3) Michel Foucault's thesis that the modern prison evolved not as a more humane alternative to the cruel physical punishments of earlier centuries, but as part of a wide-ranging scheme by sinister forces to enforce a pervasive social conformity.
  7. Human Knowledge Its Scope and Limits
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1962
  8. The Magic of Reality
    How we know what's really true

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
  9. The Meaning of Everything
    The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
  10. The Phenomenology of Mind
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1807
    The birthplace and essence of Hegel's dialectic.
  11. Postmodernism, the Academic Left, and the Crisis of Capitalism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Over the past fifty years, postmodern theory — an umbrella term generally used to refer to such diverse theoretical movements and paradigms as post-structuralism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and others — has generally dominated most fields in the humanities and some in the social sciences. But the economic meltdown in 2008 and the subsequent chronic crisis in capitalism have dealt a fatal theoretical blow to the varied and nearly ineffable assemblage of perspectives that are often grouped under the rubric of “postmodernism.” postmodernism was indeed tragedy. It was tragedy for the massive amounts of “cultural capital” that it wasted; it was tragedy for the defrauding of intellectual integrity that it represented; it was tragedy for the abandonment of reality that it recommended. Further, like the financial fiasco, it was criminal.
  12. The Price of Books, The Value of Civilization
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    I have come to think that books occupy this valuable position in our civilisation because they are the only medium for thick descriptions of the world that human beings possess. By ‘thick’ description, I mean an extended, detailed, evidence-based, written interpretation of a subject. If you want to write a feature or blog or wikipedia entry, be it about the origins of the first world war; the authoritarian turn in Russia; or the causes and effects of the 2008 financial crisis, in the end you will have to refer to a book. Or at least refer to other people who have referred to books. Even the best magazine pieces and TV documentaries – and the best of these are very good indeed – are only puddle-deep compared with the thick descriptions laid out in books. They are ‘thin’ descriptions and the creators and authors of them will have referred extensively to books to produce their work.
  13. Problems of Knowledge and Freedom
    The Russell Lectures

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    These lectures explore Bertrand Russell's work on empiricism, morality, linguistics and politics.
  14. The Psychic Grid
    How We Create the World We Know

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  15. Towards a two-tiered knowledge society
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    On the Conservative government's actions to reduce Internet access and library access to a large portion of the population.
  16. 'Useless' Knowledge
    Chapter II of 'In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays'

    Resource Type: Article
  17. The Value of Knowledge: A Miniature Library of Philosophy
    Resource Type: Website
    Tracing the development of ideas on the relation between consciousness and matter through the words of 140 philosophers over 400 years.
  18. Who owns knowledge?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    The resurgence of a Romantic view of culture poses a real menace to the free flow of knowledge and threatens to corral it into intellectual Bantustans. The ideas of free speech and open debate become meaningless if we fail to defend a universalist concept of knowledge or if we accept the notion of science as but a local view whose factual claims must defer to cultural and political needs. If scientific debate is constrained to express only sentiments with which people feel comfortable, culturally and politically, then science dies as the line between knowledge and myth becomes eroded.


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