metacognition

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Post-truth anthropology - published in Anthropology Today

By Dr Jonathan Mair in anthropology on 02 Jun 2017

A guest editorial on ‘Post-truth anthropology’ that I wrote for Anthropology Today is out today. It’s paywalled, I’m happy to send the text on request if you can’t access it. Edit: it has now been made open access for a period of 6 months — if it’s…

Paul Stoller: Social Engineering and the Politics of Ignorance

By Dr Jonathan Mair in ignorance on 05 Jul 2012

Paul Stoller has a post on the Huffington Post on education, ignorance and politics. Some of what he has to say relates to policies that aim to constrain the acquisition of knowledge. Here’s one example I find particularly astounding, not because it is an unusual position to take historically…