Don Quixotes of the "Snow Revolution": "My ne nemy!" Antropologiia protesta v Rossii 2011-2012 godov

Losing My Revolution

Social media content has grown exponentially in the recent years and the role of social media has evolved from just narrating life events to actually shaping them. In this paper we explore how many resources shared in social media are still available on the live web or in public web archives. By analyzing six different event-centric datasets of resources shared in social media in the period fro...

Raging at imaginary Don-Quixotes: a reply to Giraud and Weintraub

In my article 'The impossibility of finitism: from SSK to ESK?' (Tyfield 2008), I argued that the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) is an important, indeed necessary, precursor of an economics of scientific knowledge (ESK), opening the way for the empirical exploration of the impact of economic factors on the production of scientific knowledge. Without SSK's arguments for the irreducible ...

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Philosophy 208: the Language Revolution Fall 2011

We have seen two kinds of attacks on meaning, both of which undermine the importance or even the existence of private mental states. Quine was skeptical about meanings, but not meaning. It does not follow from Quine’s work that sentences or utterances, or whatever, lack meaning. But Quine does undermine any precise account of reference. Given the inscrutability of reference which, recall, begin...

Reading Suggestions ( 2011 – 2012 )

Introductions to Philosophy There are many good introductions to philosophy: [22], [53] and [1] have the advantage of being short and cheap. There are a few books [44, 11, 34] that introduce philosophical ideas by analysing films which raise philosophical issues. One of the advantages of these books is that they allow you to say that you are doing valuable research for this module while watchin...