Cognition may evolve in response to increasing complexity.
- Professor of Philosophy of Science, Durham University
The data concerning both the spread of the virus and the indirect consequences of the lockdown indicates that no similar action is justified moving forward.
The trick is for the chattering classes to stop telling each other what the solution is, and instead to ask those who haven’t been heard.
What does lockdown mean for the world’s poor? This documentary finds out - by asking them
Unlike in wealthy nations, lockdowns are simply impossible in overcrowded conditions with no sanitation and high levels of poverty.
Lockdown should be nuanced to the South African context of overcrowded accommodation and high levels of domestic violence. Permitting cigarette purchases and exercise might assist.
Social distancing is impossible in much of Africa, and its economic consequences may lead to a famine that is worse than the pandemic. Prevention measures must consider the African context.
If the curative thesis is true, then most medicine throughout history – as well as much contemporary medicine – isn’t medicine at all.
Recent hoax papers in humanities don’t show what they claim, but need to be taken seriously.
We can’t simply try to work out what’s going to happen during the fourth industrial revolution.
The way humanities disciplines are taught at many universities does not lend itself to ready engagement with a changed and changing world.
Critical decolonisation means accepting risk of error. It means considering whether indigenous knowledge systems might contain truths that western science hasn’t accessed.
Phrases like “knowledge production” conceal the fact that knowledge answers to something beyond itself and beyond us. To produce knowledge is to find out about something.
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