RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115918117109281530

Yes. Science is a social construct. But even though our knowledge will never be truly objective, or complete, we can still get a good grip on reality.

Science is the best way we've devised so far to get to terms with the large & bewildering world we live in.

It's unlike any other human way to generate knowledge.

But it's also deeply related to how any organism comes to know the world:: by acting on expectations & evaluating the consequence of our actions.

#philosophy #science #perspectivism

We have a new preprint out! And one that is especially dear to my heart:

"Re-Engineering Wimsatt for Limited Beings"

https://zenodo.org/records/18293424

Bill Wimsatt is possibly the most underrated philosopher of science of our times. In this paper, I attempt to translate his key ideas into a format that every scientist can understand.

Artwork by Marcus Neustetter.

Reading this paper will change the way you do science, and how you see the world, forever. I promise.

#philosophy #science #perspectivism

I've finished the first draft of my paper about William Wimsatt and his multi-perspectival realism.

I think every practicing scientist today should know about his philosophy. It will make you a better researcher, I guarantee. And it will help you feel more comfortable exploring the structure of a messy and imperfect world without losing track of your limitations.

#philsci #science #philosophy #perspectivism

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TONIGHT
Everybody welcome, just turn up!
LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM

🌔Tues Mar 11, 6:30pm (London UTC)🌕
Chris Knight on
'On women and jaguars: why perspectivism got it so wrong'

Across Amazonia, myths hold that in early times it was the jaguars, parrots, tapirs and other animals who first invented bows and arrows, cooking fire, ceremonial buildings, religious ceremonies and other complex cultural accomplishments. Then humans stole these things from the animals, elevating themselves above all other creatures – but at the cost of losing their former ability to engage in easy conversation with the animal world. This mythic view of our origins is the reverse of the Darwinian narrative which our own culture holds up as science.

In this talk, #ChrisKnight will introduce a recent trend in social anthropology – known as ‘perspectivism’ – and discuss whether such radically different ways of perceiving our origins and place in nature can be made to converge.

Chris will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

#Amazon #perspectivism #anthropology #ritual #animism #alterity #femaleinitiation #gender

#ChrisKnight's talk on Sept 19 on
'Can Indigenous and Western perspectives see eye-to-eye? The value of two-eyed seeing'

#perspectivism #Indigenous #Cosmology

https://vimeo.com/868793645

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FREE All welcome!
Radical Anthropology's Autumn Term starts on Tues Sept 19, 18:30 BST (London time) with #ChrisKnight speaking on
"Can Indigenous and Western perspectives see eye-to-eye? The value of two-eyed seeing"

Talk is LIVE in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14, Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
And on ZOOM (sign into Eventbrite, links messaged on the day)

#perspectivism #Amazon #gender #myth
Image cropped from 'Amazonian Cosmos' by Reichel-Dolmatoff, shows leaping pregnant deer, snake, bird, bat, pig in an animist Tukano conception.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/radical-anthropology-talks-tickets-707087105567