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Within positions founded upon a claim of being ‘born this way’, one finds supposedly in-built characteristics leveraged as a kind of transcendental guarantee: ‘we are told to seek solace in unfreedom [. . .] (1/7)
— Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, p. 21
— Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, p. 21
February 2, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Within positions founded upon a claim of being ‘born this way’, one finds supposedly in-built characteristics leveraged as a kind of transcendental guarantee: ‘we are told to seek solace in unfreedom [. . .] (1/7)
— Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, p. 21
— Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, p. 21
ther than seeing only the expansion-and-conquest strategies of relentless individuals, we must look for histories that develop through contamination.
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 550
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 550
February 2, 2026 at 6:58 AM
ther than seeing only the expansion-and-conquest strategies of relentless individuals, we must look for histories that develop through contamination.
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 550
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 550
Heidegger's hope is just what was worst in the tradition -the quest for the holy which turns us away from the relations between beings and beings (the relations, for example, between the ghastly apparatus of modern technology and the... (1/5)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 53
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 53
February 2, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Heidegger's hope is just what was worst in the tradition -the quest for the holy which turns us away from the relations between beings and beings (the relations, for example, between the ghastly apparatus of modern technology and the... (1/5)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 53
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 53
The tone and style of Popper's philosophy is an important part of its overall message. This tone is in part provided by the key metaphors which are used. The image of Darwinian struggle is prominent. (1/7)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 56
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 56
February 1, 2026 at 6:29 PM
The tone and style of Popper's philosophy is an important part of its overall message. This tone is in part provided by the key metaphors which are used. The image of Darwinian struggle is prominent. (1/7)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 56
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 56
Thus we can say that we owe our reason, like our language, to intercourse with other men. The fact that the rationalist attitude considers the argument rather than the person arguing is of far-reaching importance. (1/3)
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 579
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 579
February 1, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Thus we can say that we owe our reason, like our language, to intercourse with other men. The fact that the rationalist attitude considers the argument rather than the person arguing is of far-reaching importance. (1/3)
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 579
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 579
Our "irreverence" or "lack of respect" for science is not intended as an attack on scientific activity. It is simply that we maintain an agnostic position. (1/4)
— Bruno Latour & Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life, p. 36
— Bruno Latour & Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life, p. 36
February 1, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Our "irreverence" or "lack of respect" for science is not intended as an attack on scientific activity. It is simply that we maintain an agnostic position. (1/4)
— Bruno Latour & Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life, p. 36
— Bruno Latour & Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life, p. 36
It would be generally admitted that territorial boundaries have the status of social conventions, though this does not mean that they are 'mere' or 'arbitrary' conventions. (1/5)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 97
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 97
February 1, 2026 at 1:59 AM
It would be generally admitted that territorial boundaries have the status of social conventions, though this does not mean that they are 'mere' or 'arbitrary' conventions. (1/5)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 97
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 97
Freud's unconscious is not at all the romantic unconscious of imaginative creation. It is not the locus of the divinities of night.
— Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, p. 24
— Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, p. 24
January 31, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Freud's unconscious is not at all the romantic unconscious of imaginative creation. It is not the locus of the divinities of night.
— Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, p. 24
— Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, p. 24
… our thinking about mathematics is poised on a knife-edge. By adopting a formal, either/or attitude, it can be made to look as if there are no significant sources of variation within mathematics which require explanation. (1/5)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 120
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 120
January 31, 2026 at 12:38 PM
… our thinking about mathematics is poised on a knife-edge. By adopting a formal, either/or attitude, it can be made to look as if there are no significant sources of variation within mathematics which require explanation. (1/5)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 120
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 120
The smell of matsutake transformed me in a physical way. The first time I cooked them, they ruined an otherwise lovely stir-fry. The smell was overwhelming. (1/9)
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 808
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 808
January 31, 2026 at 6:33 AM
The smell of matsutake transformed me in a physical way. The first time I cooked them, they ruined an otherwise lovely stir-fry. The smell was overwhelming. (1/9)
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 808
— Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, p. 808
The imagined 'they' constitute a kind of invisible conspiracy of masculinist scientists and philosophers replete with grants and laboratories; and the imagined 'we' are the embodied others, who are not allowed not to have a body, a finite... (1/2)
— Donna Haraway, Situated Knowledges, p. 244
— Donna Haraway, Situated Knowledges, p. 244
January 31, 2026 at 1:41 AM
The imagined 'they' constitute a kind of invisible conspiracy of masculinist scientists and philosophers replete with grants and laboratories; and the imagined 'we' are the embodied others, who are not allowed not to have a body, a finite... (1/2)
— Donna Haraway, Situated Knowledges, p. 244
— Donna Haraway, Situated Knowledges, p. 244
Circumstances (that which stands around) have generally been considered irrelevant to the practice of science. Our argument could be summarised as an attempt to demonstrate their relevance. (1/3)
— Bruno Latour & Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life, p. 276
— Bruno Latour & Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life, p. 276
January 30, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Circumstances (that which stands around) have generally been considered irrelevant to the practice of science. Our argument could be summarised as an attempt to demonstrate their relevance. (1/3)
— Bruno Latour & Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life, p. 276
— Bruno Latour & Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life, p. 276
“The urge to make philosophy into Philosophy is to make it the search for some final vocabulary, which can somehow be known in advance to be the common core, the truth of, all the other vocabularies which might be advanced in its... (1/2)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xlii
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xlii
January 30, 2026 at 12:44 PM
“The urge to make philosophy into Philosophy is to make it the search for some final vocabulary, which can somehow be known in advance to be the common core, the truth of, all the other vocabularies which might be advanced in its... (1/2)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xlii
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xlii
They all divide behaviour or belief into two types: right and wrong, true or false, rational or irrational. They then invoke sociological or psychological causes to explain the negative side of the division. (1/3)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 9
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 9
January 30, 2026 at 6:42 AM
They all divide behaviour or belief into two types: right and wrong, true or false, rational or irrational. They then invoke sociological or psychological causes to explain the negative side of the division. (1/3)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 9
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 9
And Hegel proves again that this present Prussia is the pinnacle and the stronghold and the goal of freedom. (1/9)
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 367
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 367
January 30, 2026 at 1:45 AM
And Hegel proves again that this present Prussia is the pinnacle and the stronghold and the goal of freedom. (1/9)
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 367
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 367
Mathematics like morality is designed to meet the requirements of people who hold a great deal in common in their physiology and in their physical environment. (1/2)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 109
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 109
January 29, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Mathematics like morality is designed to meet the requirements of people who hold a great deal in common in their physiology and in their physical environment. (1/2)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 109
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 109
“On the pragmatist's account, positivism was only a halfway stage in the development of such a culture-the progress toward, as Sartre puts it, doing without God. (1/4)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xliii-b
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xliii-b
January 29, 2026 at 12:48 PM
“On the pragmatist's account, positivism was only a halfway stage in the development of such a culture-the progress toward, as Sartre puts it, doing without God. (1/4)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xliii-b
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. xliii-b
He is suggesting how things might look if we did not have Kantian philosophy built into the fabric of our intellectual life, as his predecessors suggested how things might look if we did not have religion built into the fabric of our... (1/6)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 99
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 99
January 29, 2026 at 6:41 AM
He is suggesting how things might look if we did not have Kantian philosophy built into the fabric of our intellectual life, as his predecessors suggested how things might look if we did not have religion built into the fabric of our... (1/6)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 99
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 99
Now, we begin to spot this common core as soon as we take an interest in expressions such as "acting in keeping with one's nature," or in the classic line about living "according to one's true nature." (1/2)
— Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia, p. 29
— Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia, p. 29
January 29, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Now, we begin to spot this common core as soon as we take an interest in expressions such as "acting in keeping with one's nature," or in the classic line about living "according to one's true nature." (1/2)
— Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia, p. 29
— Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia, p. 29
A person who has once been accused of being a witch will not always be treated as one. The Azande say that this is because his witchcraft-substance is 'cool'. For all intents and purposes he is no longer a witch. (1/2)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 141
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 141
January 28, 2026 at 6:32 PM
A person who has once been accused of being a witch will not always be treated as one. The Azande say that this is because his witchcraft-substance is 'cool'. For all intents and purposes he is no longer a witch. (1/2)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 141
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 141
The following statements were commonplace in early Greek mathematics: one is not a number; one is neither odd nor even but even-odd; two is not an even number. Nowadays each of these claims is rejected as false. (1/2)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 109
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 109
January 28, 2026 at 12:41 PM
The following statements were commonplace in early Greek mathematics: one is not a number; one is neither odd nor even but even-odd; two is not an even number. Nowadays each of these claims is rejected as false. (1/2)
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 109
— David Bloor, Knowledge and Social Imagery, p. 109
U nforrunatdy, it is rather curious that philosophy shows so many signs of aging. Okay, Heidegger said two or three sensible things. (1/3)
— Jacques Lacan, The Triumph of Religion, p. 82
— Jacques Lacan, The Triumph of Religion, p. 82
January 28, 2026 at 6:31 AM
U nforrunatdy, it is rather curious that philosophy shows so many signs of aging. Okay, Heidegger said two or three sensible things. (1/3)
— Jacques Lacan, The Triumph of Religion, p. 82
— Jacques Lacan, The Triumph of Religion, p. 82
The fundamental mistake made by the philosophical theory of the ultimate sources of our knowledge is that it does not distinguish clearly enough between questions of origin and questions of validity. (1/3)
— Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, p. 44
— Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, p. 44
January 28, 2026 at 1:23 AM
The fundamental mistake made by the philosophical theory of the ultimate sources of our knowledge is that it does not distinguish clearly enough between questions of origin and questions of validity. (1/3)
— Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, p. 44
— Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, p. 44
Thus only one kind of 'judgement' can be passed on World-Historical deeds and events: their result, their success. (1/7)
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 390
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 390
January 27, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Thus only one kind of 'judgement' can be passed on World-Historical deeds and events: their result, their success. (1/7)
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 390
— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, p. 390
I would claim, then, that the principal legacy of metaphysical idealism is the ability of the literary culture to stand apart from science, to assert its spiritual superiority to science, to claim to embody what is most important for... (1/7)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 150
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 150
January 27, 2026 at 12:40 PM
I would claim, then, that the principal legacy of metaphysical idealism is the ability of the literary culture to stand apart from science, to assert its spiritual superiority to science, to claim to embody what is most important for... (1/7)
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 150
— Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 150