Ancient Knowledge Networks: A Social Geography of Cuneiform Scholarship in First-Millennium Assyria and Babylonia
Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book about how knowledge travels, in minds and bodies as well as in writings. It explores the forms knowledge takes and the meanings it accrues, and how these meanings are shaped by the peoples who use it.
Reminder: #CfP for the #conference "Undoing #Knowledge. Stories of Knowledge Formation in the Long Nineteenth Century". which will take place at the University of Leuven (#KU_Leuven) on December 14-15,2023.
How do we produce and disseminiate #knowledge of sand without reducing it to an object, mineral, or resource? The S.AND team has kicked off "Sand Bundles" to share our curiosity about #sand , other granular materials and coastal geology beyond academia. In exchange with artists, activists and curators, we wish to co-develop tools that bundle theoretical and creative perspectives for an Anthropocenic understanding of sand. Join us via the Ecological Design Collective. www.ecodesigncollective.org
#Meditation sharpens your #concentraiton and your thinking power. Then piece by piece, your own #subconscious motives and mechanics become clear to you. Your #intuition sharpens. The precision of your #thought increases, and gradually you come to a direct #knowledge of things as they reaally are, without #prejudice and without #illusion .
It was pure joy to be back in Oxford - the first time in four years - for the UKFIET Conference.
I spoke on the need for epistemic humility as we move forward to question accepted knowledges, and asked the question, ‘Why is epistemic humility provocative?’
My ideas stem from my paper for the UNESCO Education and Research Foresight Working Paper Series and on work I am continuing with #NORRAG now.
Do any #philosophy or #logic people know of a good formal treatment of Yablo’s views on ‘immanent’ knowledge closure from his "Aboutness”? The book does not seem to entirely spell out his intended semantics for knowledge ascriptions, but I would be curious to know if others have worked this out.
The Sakya Monastery in tibet has a library comprising some 84,000 books. Most are Buddhist scriptures, but there are works of literature, history, philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, agriculture, and art. They date back centuries.
In 2011 they began to digitize the library. All books are indexed and about 20% have been fully digitized.