Lee Trepanier’s Post

I´m not "over the moon", "humbled" or "thrilled to announce" (sorry no LinkedIn-Jargon today) However, I´m a bit proud that I managed to turn a talk on Feyerabend & the Postfactual (held in August in Rome at a room temperature of about 40C) into a little essay for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science. If anyone wants a free copy, you find it here: https://lnkd.in/dDZFnABc

#TerminologyTuesday: STANDPOINT THEORIES (ST), ST accords validity and scientific legitimacy to the epistemological advantage of using one’s own standpoint for example as women or as subjugated unheard voices as writers and thinkers; ST notes that material life, not only structures, sets limits on our understandings of social relations and calls for a more embodied and reflexive knowledge; ST can be a philosophy of science, epistemology, methodology, and political strategy.

The US Department of the Interior (#DOI) defines "#Indigenous Knowledge (#IK) [as] the following are generally agreed upon universal concepts that are often used to describe Indigenous Knowledge. IK is a body of observations, oral and written knowledge, innovations, technologies, practices, and beliefs developed by #IndigenousPeoples through interaction and experience with the environment. It is applied to phenomena across biological, physical, social, cultural, and spiritual systems. IK can be developed over millennia, continues to develop, and includes understanding based on evidence acquired through direct contact with the environment and long-term experiences, as well as extensive observations, lessons, and skills passed from generation to generation. IK is developed, held, and stewarded by Indigenous Peoples and is often intrinsic within Indigenous legal traditions, including customary law or traditional governance structures and decision-making processes. Other terms such as #TraditionalKnowledge(s), #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge, Genetic Resources associated with Traditional Knowledge, Traditional Cultural Expression, Tribal Ecological Knowledge, Native Science, Indigenous Applied Science, #IndigenousScience, and others, are sometimes used to describe this knowledge system."

Much discussions over what is "science" of late. In the 1880s, Matthew Arnold, poet and educator, and Thomas Huxley, biologist, engaged in a fierce curriculum debate. The issue was whether college curriculums, which at that time focused on classical literature, should be expanded to include the natural sciences. 1959, and the "Two Cultures" lecture by CP Snow highlighted the chasm between spheres of knowledge - the humanities and sciences. The lecture was subsequently published as "The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution". The 1996 Sokal Hoax continued to fuel the discussion. Complexity studies, the multidisciplinary study of complex systems, from cells to societies, seem to offer potential for some mediation. How do systems of knowledge affect how we attempt to comprehend the world?

𝐅𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐲 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 In 𝑀𝑒́𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑒́𝑡𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠, Alphonse de Lamartine wrote, "Man delights in tracing back to his source; the river does not. This is because man is intelligence, while the river is an element." Alexander Makulilo and Rodrick Henry not only traced back to the origins of 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤, a journal launched in 1971 by the Department of Political Science at the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania’s oldest public university), but they also explored its present and future. Read the article ↓ https://lnkd.in/ep_Xgwmp #openaccess #theafricanreview #Africanresearch #PoliticalScience #recheach

Reading of Prof Nnabugwu's citation by Immediate past Hod of Political science, Prof Jaja Nwanegbo

Don't throw out the Baby with the Bathwater, the answer is known.  To grow our connection with our One common father aa G-d of Abraham via exercising our free will to be aware and act accordingly.  Via good faith, Torah study, obedience to our respective covenants of 7-613. How/why we now know the vastly higher probability science attests Moses had it right to begin with. Start study at Pearlman YeC on researchgate. Follow, enjoy, recommend and share to help advance science and correct the history books.

We need to challenge entrenched beliefs. Some metaphysical positions are simply choices that need to be challenged if we wish to correct endemic and persistent errors in our understanding of reality and the nature of our being within it. It’s inevitable you’ll meet with resistance/misunderstanding. Sometimes so entrenched that it becomes belligerent! It’s a Kuhnian thing (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions) See… https://lnkd.in/eDUgfbZ4 Kuhn initially used incommensurability predominately to challenge cumulative characterizations of scientific advance, according to which scientific progress is an improving approximation to the truth, and to challenge the idea that there are unchanging, neutral methodological standards for comparing theories throughout the development of the natural sciences. See… https://lnkd.in/eZcmgSTv The best breakthroughs in science are when someone dares to challenge the groupminnd think that is held as unchallengeable dogma. It comes with a price though! ***** Some people kind of don’t understand that! 😜

Blast from the past! Thanks to DERC for inviting me to give a keynote address at their conference in 2017. Great to know that it was in the top ten of their most viewed videos. I think if I were asked to give the address again, I would revise some of what I said but I think my three main points are still valid: 1. GCE is of relevance for various sub-disciplines within political science (and indeed other fields in the social sciences) ; 2. research on GCE needs to be inter, post and trans-disciplinary and I welcome those kinds of partnerships; 3. Researchers of GCE either as practitioners or those researching GCE from any other discipline within the social sciences need to pay close attention to the methodologies they use and their epistemological assumptions.

Like Rome’s mos maiorum, science relies on traditions of trust and scrutiny. But today, these pillars are under attack, threatening science and democracy. Forensic Scientometrics offers a way to safeguard integrity, ensuring that trust in research isn’t eroded.  As science faces growing global challenges, we must ask ourselves: What are we doing to uphold trust in science? Read more in my latest blog post. #TrustInScience Digital Science #ForensicScientometrics #FoSci #ResearchIntegrity