The Motivated Sceptic
Robin McKennaPolitics, philosophy and psychology from a slightly sceptical and cynical perspective.
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In Defence of the Applied Turn
I finished my undergraduate degree in philosophy (and maths) in 2008, did a masters a year or so later, and finished my PhD in 2013. I don’t know how representative my education was, but it was a combination of the classics (the usual ones)...
What is Wrong with Politicisation?
This is a lightly edited version of a paper I will be giving this summer at a conference organised by the “Knowledge in Crisis” project. I’m going to talk about politicisation because, in my view, the “crisis of knowledge” is really a crisi...
Parochialism in Political Epistemology
This is a shorter, slightly more accessible version of a paper that will be published in this book, which I’m very happy with, but will be so expensive that you would be absolutely crazy to purchase. It is based on a talk I gave on the beau...
Are We Overdoing Democracy?
My current reading is a bit of a hodgepodge: James C Scott’s Seeing Like a State, Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Chantal Mouffe’s On the Political and The Return of the Political, and Robert Talisse’s Overdoing D...
Science Communication as Propaganda
A few months ago I wrote a series of posts on propaganda: how we should think about it, why we should be worried about it, and its historical entanglement with advertising and public relations. This post continues this theme, but with a new...
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Scottish philosopher at the University of Liverpool. I am an epistemologist, but don't ask me what the word "epistemic" means.
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