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Wikipedia: What Is It Good For? - Mises Institute - 0 views

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hayek knowledge trust wiki

shared by tony curzon price on 23 Sep 07 - Cached

"Jimbo" — was a finance major at Auburn University when the Mises Institute's Mark Thornton suggested he read "The Use of Knowledge in Society," a now-famous essay written by Austro-libertarian economist and Nobel laureate Friedrich von Hayek. The essay argues that prices in the market represent a spontaneous order that results from the interaction of individuals with diverse wants, allowing them to cooperate to achieve complex goals. According to a June 2007 Reason magazine interview, this insight of Hayek's is what led Wales to found Wikipedia. The rather lofty vision that inspired Wales? "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."
- tony curzon price on 23 Sep 07
  
  jimbo's hayekian insight ... hmmm data, information, knowledge ... even wisdom i think Hayek thought the market produced information, not knowledge. What was Hayek's epistemology?
  
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Embedding Evidence on Conservation Interventions Within a Context of Multilevel Governa... - 0 views

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conservation policy

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An effective response to the wide variety in governance and ecological systems therefore calls for the creation of new decision-making forums that engage diverse constellations of actors and knowledge across spatial and temporal scales, in ways relevant to specific decisions (Paavola et al. 2009). This in turn raises issues of democratic legitimacy and accountability, because for citizens it may become difficult to assume democratic responsibilities when being part of overlapping sites of decision-making (Peters & Pierre 2005).
- Arabica Robusta on 25 Feb 17
  
  Conservation governance and democratic accountability
  
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The second step will be to ensure that scientists, policy makers, and practitioners participate in the cocreation of policy-relevant science, going beyond identifying stakeholder-relevant questions for systematic reviews. From the outset, scientists and decision-makers should jointly consider how administrative and ecological scales fit in order to balance democratic legitimacy and ecological efficacy.
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By being clear as to the types and scales of knowledge needed, and the limitations of existing knowledge to inform policy, decision-makers will also play a role in highlighting knowledge gaps. We thus frame decision-makers as actively participating stakeholders in shaping what evidence base is needed for conservation, rather than framing conservation policy as something that must respond to the agenda of scientists who produce evidence. As a consequence, there is a strong need to develop practical solutions, based on a joint effort by researchers, decision-makers and land-use planners, on how to integrate evidence-based practices and general ecological principles within a multilevel governance framework. Through embedding locally implemented conservation interventions within a broader context, we are confident they would gain both in legitimacy and effectiveness.
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Xenophon, Works on Socrates - 0 views

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aspasia economics feminsim socrates xenophone

shared by tony curzon price on 16 Dec 07 - Cached

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"When a sheep is ailing," said Socrates, "we generally blame the shepherd, and when a horse is vicious, we generally find fault with his rider. In the case of a wife, if she receives instruction in the right way from her husband and yet does badly, perhaps she should bear the blame; but if the husband does not instruct his wife in the right way of doing things, and so finds her ignorant, should he not bear the blame himself? [12] Anyhow, Critobulus, you should tell us the truth, for we are all friends here. Is there anyone to whom you commit more affairs of importance than you commit to your wife?" "There is not." "Is there anyone with whom you talk less?" "There are few or none, I confess." [13] "And you married her when she was a mere child and had seen and heard almost nothing?" "Certainly." "Then it would be far more surprising if she understood what she should say or do than if she made mistakes." [14] "But what of the husbands who, as you say, have good wives, Socrates? Did they train them themselves?" "There's nothing like investigation. I will introduce Aspasia to you, and she will explain the whole matter to you with more knowledge than I possess. [15] I think that the wife who is a good partner in the household contributes just as much as her husband to its good; because the incomings for the most part are the result of the husband's exertions, but the outgoings are controlled mostly by the wife's dispensation. If both do their part well, the estate is increased; if they act incompetently, it is diminished. [16] If you think you want to know about other branches of knowledge, I fancy I can show you people who acquit themselves creditably in any one of them."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"When a sheep is ailing," said Socrates, "we generally blame the shepherd, and when a horse is vicious, we generally find fault with his rider. In the case of a wife, if she receives instruction in the right way from her husband and yet does badly, perhaps she should bear the blame; but if the husband does not instruct his wife in the right way of doing things, and so finds her ignorant, should he not bear the blame himself? [12] Anyhow, Critobulus, you should tell us the truth, for we are all friends here. Is there anyone to whom you commit more affairs of importance than you commit to your wife?" "There is not." "Is there anyone with whom you talk less?" "There are few or none, I confess." [13] "And you married her when she was a mere child and had seen and heard almost nothing?" "Certainly." "Then it would be far more surprising if she understood what she should say or do than if she made mistakes." [14] "But what of the husbands who, as you say, have good wives, Socrates? Did they train them themselves?" "There's nothing like investigation. I will introduce Aspasia to you, and she will explain the whole matter to you with more knowledge than I possess. [15] I think that the wife who is a good partner in the household contributes just as much as her husband to its good; because the incomings for the most part are the result of the husband's exertions, but the outgoings are controlled mostly by the wife's dispensation. If both do their part well, the estate is increased; if they act incompetently, it is diminished. [16] If you think you want to know about other branches of knowledge, I fancy I can show you people who acquit themselves creditably in any one of them."</div>

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Making up minds | COA News - 0 views

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shared by tony curzon price on 03 Nov 07 - Cached

rust vs. Mistrust by media source How to know? Who to believe? The new-media revolution has subverted as well as expanded the possibilities of knowledge-based understanding. Tony Curzon Price presents openDemocracy’s response to a crisis of trust. The Enlightenment faith that knowledge will lead to understanding, and understanding to a better world, is central to openDemocracy's being. It informs both what we publish - in-depth analysis and commentary by public intellectuals, professionals, writers, academics and activists - and how we view ourselves: the product, process and the purpose alike.
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History of Education: Selected Moments - 0 views

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shared by tony curzon price on 26 Oct 07 - Cached

In The Public and its Problems (p. 365), he admitted that "it is not necessary that the many should have the knowledge and skill to carry on the needed investigations; what is required is that they have the ability to judge of the bearing of the knowledge supplied by others upon common concerns."
- tony curzon price on 26 Oct 07
  
  dewey responds to lippman - the onus is on how we judge without being experts
  
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The Hottest Speaker in Australia - 1 views

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Zygmunt Bauman: globalisation, politics and Europe Ian Varcoe - openDemocracy - 0 views

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intellectuals self-knowledge

shared by tony curzon price on 02 Apr 07 - Cached

Reading Bauman helps people to insulate themselves from these false solutions to their difficulties.
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might say that the problem for people today is how to resist consumer society, to find ways of caring for others, and to find a new politics that is above the nation-state. The globalisation phenomenon requires this if it is to be encountered by humanity in a more balanced form than at present when its negative side predominates over its positive side. The European integration project may offer some guidance.
- tony curzon price on 02 Apr 07
  
  The european project as a hope for a better globalisation ... but does it have the right bottom-up legitimacy to be that? is it not too much of an elitist project?
  
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The political institutions of this are parliamentary democracy and the public sphere; the former has been eroded and the latter hollowed out.
- tony curzon price on 02 Apr 07
  
  This makes me think of Simon Zadek at AccounAbility, who believes that the future of democracy will be found in the accountability of non-state instituions, like business and NGOs. Davos and CSR, not EU and UN.
  
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Bauman is a declared European
- tony curzon price on 02 Apr 07
  
  a good description of the Scylla and Charibdys of the EU alternative - dialogue that paves the way between relativism and fundamentalisms
  
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tony curzon price on 02 Apr 07

How, I wonder ...

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Wikipedia 2.0, with added trust - 0 views

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knowledge macarthur trust wiki

shared by tony curzon price on 23 Sep 07 - Cached

In the new version, only edits made by a separate class of "trusted" users will be instantly implemented. To earn this trusted status, users will have to show some commitment to Wikipedia, by making 30 edits in 30 days, say. Other users will have to wait until a trusted editor has given the article a brief look, enough to confirm that the edit is not vandalism, before their changes can be viewed by readers.
- tony curzon price on 23 Sep 07
  
  how do we trust the trusted editor? is there a rush to become trusted editor?
  
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It allows select groups of editors, probably associated with specific subject areas, to vote on whether an article should be flagged as high quality. Readers would still see the latest version of an article by default, but a link to a high-quality version, if it exists, would also be available.
- tony curzon price on 23 Sep 07
  
  looks like an editorial committee
  
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Contributors whose edits tend to remain in place are awarded high trust ratings; those whose changes are quickly altered get a low score. The rationale is that if a change is useful and accurate, it is likely to remain intact during subsequent edits, but if it is inaccurate or malicious, it is likely to be changed. Therefore, users who make long-lasting edits are likely to be trustworthy. New users automatically start with a low rating.
- tony curzon price on 23 Sep 07
  
  so a scientist, writing a fact-based and relatively obscure set of entries, will become trustworthy on questions of politics or ethics ...
  
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De Alfaro has shown that the software's ratings correlate with human judgements. Using data from the Italian Wikipedia, his software assigned trust ratings to editors based on the persistence of past contributions, and then asked volunteers to rate edits by those editors. Edits made by editors with ratings in the bottom 20 per cent were up to six times more likely to be judged as bad than those with higher ratings.
- tony curzon price on 23 Sep 07
  
  this data is _before_ the mechanism introduces an incentive for abuse ...
  
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Knowledge Politics Quarterly - 0 views

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news war

shared by tony curzon price on 09 Oct 07 - Cached

Laura Kyrke-Smith
- tony curzon price on 09 Oct 07
  
  Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed (Preamble of the Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, November 1945).
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed (Preamble of the Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, November 1945). </div>
  
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Chicago Reader | Defending Strauss: University of Chicago philosophy prof Leo Strauss h... - 0 views

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shared by tony curzon price on 08 Sep 07 - Cached

“Strauss’s interpretation of Plato is wrong from beginning to end,” Burnyeat argued. “There is much talk in Straussian writings about the nature of ‘the philosopher’ but no sign of any knowledge, from the inside, of what it is to be actively involved in philosophy.”
- tony curzon price on 08 Sep 07
  
  Burenat's view of Strauss
  
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Strauss said, political philosophy is good for something: “If for no other purpose, at least in order to defend a reasonable policy against overgenerous or utopian thought, we would need a genuine political philosophy reminding us of the limits set to all human hopes and wishes.”
- tony curzon price on 08 Sep 07
  
  Strauss in a good light on politics
  
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“I was certainly struck by how very skeptical he was for the prospects of establishing democracy in Germany,” Tarcov says. In “Re-education,” Strauss doubted that a just government in Germany could be constructed after the war, at least not if the effort were left to the Allies. “A form of government which is merely imposed by a victorious enemy will not last,” Strauss predicted. “Only Germans, only Germans who remained in Germany and shared all the misery of Nazi rule and of defeat, can do it. Only they will be able to speak a language understandable to post-Hitlerian Germany.”
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Summary of Findings: Public Knowledge of Current Affairs Little Changed by News and Inf... - 0 views

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macarthur news od

shared by tony curzon price on 26 Jun 07 - Cached

Nearly four-in-ten people (37%) regularly use at least one type of internet news source, either the news pages of major search engines such as Google or Yahoo (25%), the websites of the television news organizations (22%), or the websites of major national newspapers such as the New York Times or USA Today (12%). Additionally, about one-in-ten (11%) read online blogs where people discuss events in the news.
- tony curzon price on 26 Jun 07
  
  using web as news source in USA survey
  
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Which Audiences Know the Most?
- tony curzon price on 26 Jun 07
  
  regular users of online news are not the most informed, by a long way
  
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I Passed the UK Police Recruitment for 2011 - 1 views

I really wanted to become a police officer, not because being a police officer is exciting, but, because I knew being a police officer is a noble profession and I wanted to make a difference in the...

started by Anne White on 11 Oct 11 no follow-up yet

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