Knowledge Production and Intellectual Legitimacy

Knowledge Production and Intellectual Legitimacy

This is the fourth essay in my series on intellectual legitimacy. Read the first essay here. Read the previous essay here. We mostly evaluate knowledge by checking whether society at large perceives it as respectable and reasonable – we call this its intellectual...
How Ideas Are Communicated

How Ideas Are Communicated

Photograph: Claudio Schwarz. This is the third essay in my series on intellectual legitimacy. Read the first essay here. Read the second essay here. There is a rough hierarchy of legitimacy within the many different ways that knowledge can be communicated. This...