Rory D. Kent
@feyerabender.bsky.social
Political philosopher of science. Trying to work on the ideology-critique of scientism and a materialist theory of scientific crises, while also holding down a desk job.
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Rory D. Kent
@feyerabender.bsky.social
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Feyerabend's Monster and the Critique of Scientism
In this dissertation, I identify and develop the social-democratic tendency within Paul Feyerabend’s political thought to lay the groundwork for a critical social theory of scientism. Across his polit...
www.repository.cam.ac.uk
My PhD thesis is now openly available to read online :) www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/4aedae...
transphobes are hounding me on twitter for my eminently correct take on the pseudo-technicality of their conceptual vocabulary
November 18, 2025 at 8:14 AM
transphobes are hounding me on twitter for my eminently correct take on the pseudo-technicality of their conceptual vocabulary
"Occupational skill is not identical with class position. Some engineers are hired men; other engineers do the hiring. A consultant engineer may have his own office, work for his own account, and, economically speaking, be an independent enterpriser. Or an individual with the same type and amount...
November 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"Occupational skill is not identical with class position. Some engineers are hired men; other engineers do the hiring. A consultant engineer may have his own office, work for his own account, and, economically speaking, be an independent enterpriser. Or an individual with the same type and amount...
Encountering the dialectic of recognition on my central line commute
October 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Encountering the dialectic of recognition on my central line commute
A nice micro case study in scientistic ideology!
Can you explain any advance in human knowledge that the sociology of science has provided us with?
October 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
A nice micro case study in scientistic ideology!
I want to thank Richard Dawkins for making my arguments about popular science writing as a vector for ideological scientism incredibly easy to develop
September 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I want to thank Richard Dawkins for making my arguments about popular science writing as a vector for ideological scientism incredibly easy to develop
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Folks, get off of Academia[.]edu. Delete your accounts. Put your work on a faculty webpage, on hcommons, on your own webpage. But not on Academia[.]edu.
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September 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Folks, get off of Academia[.]edu. Delete your accounts. Put your work on a faculty webpage, on hcommons, on your own webpage. But not on Academia[.]edu.
www.academia.edu/terms
www.academia.edu/terms
did you know Robert De Niro's father was the spitting image of Wittgenstein?
September 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
did you know Robert De Niro's father was the spitting image of Wittgenstein?
My article in HOPOS, "Feyerabend, Freedom, and the Tyranny of Science" is now available ahead of print over at www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
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September 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
My article in HOPOS, "Feyerabend, Freedom, and the Tyranny of Science" is now available ahead of print over at www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
For anyone attending MANCEPT 2025 this week, I'll be delivering my talk on ideological scientism at 16:30 today, as part of the "Integrating Politics and Philosophy of Science from Below" workshop. You can also hear grumble at length about the "Science & Values" paradigm :)
September 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
For anyone attending MANCEPT 2025 this week, I'll be delivering my talk on ideological scientism at 16:30 today, as part of the "Integrating Politics and Philosophy of Science from Below" workshop. You can also hear grumble at length about the "Science & Values" paradigm :)
One of my employers has me supervising undergrad research projects on Aquinas on war, the Science of Logic, and Being & Time all at once
July 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
One of my employers has me supervising undergrad research projects on Aquinas on war, the Science of Logic, and Being & Time all at once
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helen de cruz was fully who she was. her genuineness & humaneness was abundant in everything she did, including in dying, something we will all do, but few of us as honestly. in that she exemplified what you would hope a philosopher could be. i’m glad to have known her a little.
June 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
helen de cruz was fully who she was. her genuineness & humaneness was abundant in everything she did, including in dying, something we will all do, but few of us as honestly. in that she exemplified what you would hope a philosopher could be. i’m glad to have known her a little.
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@helendecruz.net (1978-2025), RIP open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
Helen de Cruz (1978-2025), RIP
Please consider donating to this fundraising effort (here) to support Helen de Cruz’s family.
open.substack.com
June 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
@helendecruz.net (1978-2025), RIP open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
This is sad news. I didn't know her well but from the times our paths crossed she seemed like a supremely kind and decent person
June 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
This is sad news. I didn't know her well but from the times our paths crossed she seemed like a supremely kind and decent person
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It is with profound sadness that we learned about the passing of our beloved friend, colleague, and mentor, Mario Biagioli.
Mario was a pre-eminent scholar in many fields of inquiry: history of science, science studies, media studies, and the interdisciplinary study of intellectual properties. 1/2
Mario was a pre-eminent scholar in many fields of inquiry: history of science, science studies, media studies, and the interdisciplinary study of intellectual properties. 1/2
Mario Biagioli – ISHTIP.org
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May 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It is with profound sadness that we learned about the passing of our beloved friend, colleague, and mentor, Mario Biagioli.
Mario was a pre-eminent scholar in many fields of inquiry: history of science, science studies, media studies, and the interdisciplinary study of intellectual properties. 1/2
Mario was a pre-eminent scholar in many fields of inquiry: history of science, science studies, media studies, and the interdisciplinary study of intellectual properties. 1/2
So sad to hear news of Mario Biagioli's death. When I had just started my PhD, I tentatively reached out to Prof Biagioli to ask a few questions about Feyerabend's pedagogy. He didn't know me, but was so generous as to reply in vivid detail. Anyone interested in HPS must read Galileo, Courtier!
May 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
So sad to hear news of Mario Biagioli's death. When I had just started my PhD, I tentatively reached out to Prof Biagioli to ask a few questions about Feyerabend's pedagogy. He didn't know me, but was so generous as to reply in vivid detail. Anyone interested in HPS must read Galileo, Courtier!
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just in case anyone somehow still hasn't gotten around to it
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labour.org.uk/membership-r...
May 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
just in case anyone somehow still hasn't gotten around to it
labour.org.uk/membership-r...
labour.org.uk/membership-r...
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no class or dignity in genocide
May 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
no class or dignity in genocide
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Along with a man and a woman who are trans, and someone who is intersex, we are suing the EHRC and the Equalities Minister in respect of the disgraceful and unlawful EHRC guidance.
In line with our transparency principles we are publishing the full 32 page legal letter. goodlaw.social/2ihj
In line with our transparency principles we are publishing the full 32 page legal letter. goodlaw.social/2ihj
We're bringing a legal challenge to the EHRC’s ‘Interim Update’
A number of trans and intersex individuals have today begun a legal challenge to the EHRC’s ‘Interim Update’ following the For Women, Scotland decision
goodlaw.social
May 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Along with a man and a woman who are trans, and someone who is intersex, we are suing the EHRC and the Equalities Minister in respect of the disgraceful and unlawful EHRC guidance.
In line with our transparency principles we are publishing the full 32 page legal letter. goodlaw.social/2ihj
In line with our transparency principles we are publishing the full 32 page legal letter. goodlaw.social/2ihj
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NYU student speaker at graduation addresses Palestine; school is withholding his diploma for his speech
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May 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
NYU student speaker at graduation addresses Palestine; school is withholding his diploma for his speech
www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
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Fresh off a Supreme Court 'victory' for 'real women' that apparently yielded few electoral dividends (who could have predicted?), Starmer seizes on another strategic blinder by sacking two women from his cabinet. You are witnessing a master at work.
May 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Fresh off a Supreme Court 'victory' for 'real women' that apparently yielded few electoral dividends (who could have predicted?), Starmer seizes on another strategic blinder by sacking two women from his cabinet. You are witnessing a master at work.
Critics of Wokeism Found Celebrating after This Huge Win for Truth and Reason: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 3, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Critics of Wokeism Found Celebrating after This Huge Win for Truth and Reason: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
(Not that notional agreement with an expert group by itself proves the correctness of a view, but) it is unsurprising that anti-trans ideologues purport to speak in the name of a univocal Science, all the while finding themselves at odds expert institutions www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
May 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
(Not that notional agreement with an expert group by itself proves the correctness of a view, but) it is unsurprising that anti-trans ideologues purport to speak in the name of a univocal Science, all the while finding themselves at odds expert institutions www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Today at @stsucl.bsky.social History of Science Reading Group we discussed @gianamar97.bsky.social Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh and @feyerabender.bsky.social Rory Kent, “Crises and the history of science: a materialist rehabilitation,” BJHS Themes (2024) doi.org/10.1017/bjt.... i
Crises and the history of science: a materialist rehabilitation | BJHS Themes | Cambridge Core
Crises and the history of science: a materialist rehabilitation - Volume 9
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May 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Today at @stsucl.bsky.social History of Science Reading Group we discussed @gianamar97.bsky.social Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh and @feyerabender.bsky.social Rory Kent, “Crises and the history of science: a materialist rehabilitation,” BJHS Themes (2024) doi.org/10.1017/bjt.... i
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Phd examining🧵 cont. In Feb together with @thehangedman.com we examined Rory's fantastically erudite and classy reinterpretation of Feyerabend. F himself couldn't possibly imagine being read that way but should be so grateful. A section on Brecht's theatre in a #philsci dissertation? Tick.
My PhD thesis is now openly available to read online :) www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/4aedae...
Feyerabend's Monster and the Critique of Scientism
In this dissertation, I identify and develop the social-democratic tendency within Paul Feyerabend’s political thought to lay the groundwork for a critical social theory of scientism. Across his polit...
www.repository.cam.ac.uk
April 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Phd examining🧵 cont. In Feb together with @thehangedman.com we examined Rory's fantastically erudite and classy reinterpretation of Feyerabend. F himself couldn't possibly imagine being read that way but should be so grateful. A section on Brecht's theatre in a #philsci dissertation? Tick.
My PhD thesis is now openly available to read online :) www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/4aedae...
Feyerabend's Monster and the Critique of Scientism
In this dissertation, I identify and develop the social-democratic tendency within Paul Feyerabend’s political thought to lay the groundwork for a critical social theory of scientism. Across his polit...
www.repository.cam.ac.uk
April 24, 2025 at 7:22 AM
My PhD thesis is now openly available to read online :) www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/4aedae...