Tag: knowledge

Imagine a town called Learnerville. Within Learnerville there is a building. All the windows are boarded, and all the doors ...

Up until the previous posts in this series, I’ve simply done my best to try to accurately explain the views ...

Jeffrey Friedman’s Power Without Knowledge: A Critique of Technocracy is impressive in its scope and its argumentative strength. The book ...

Suppose technocracy has all the systemic problems Jeffrey Friedman suggests in Power Without Freedom. Does he think this is nonetheless ...

As was evident in my previous posts in this series, Jeffrey Friedman thinks there are serious, systemic, possibly insurmountable problems ...

In this series of posts so far, we’ve looked at Jeffrey Friedman’s definition of technocracy, the existence of naive realism ...

Jeffrey Friedman spends a significant amount of time in Power Without Knowledge concerned with the epistemic complexity of society. But ...

One (seemingly) obvious solution to inadequate voter information is something like a market approach – an epistemic division of labor ...

In the previous post in this series, I described Friedman’s definition of naive realism, along with some of the problems ...

The first post in this series outlined the purpose of Jeffrey Friedman’s final book, Power Without Knowledge: A Critique of ...