Knowledge and information : the potential and peril of human intelligence / c edited by Kurt Almqvist & Mattias Hessérus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beth & Matthew Mezvinsky Collection Fund for Modern Philosophy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization--History.

Civilization.

History.

Intellect--History--Sociological aspects.

Intellect.

History of knowledge.

Physical Description:

345 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

[Stockholm, Sweden] : Bokförlaget Stolpe, in Association with Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: THE ORIGINS OF KNOWLEDGE

You Are Not as Clever as You Think / Mark Pagel

How We Know What We Do Not Know / Mark Plotkin

Is Modern Information Better Than Pre-Literate Knowledge? / John Hemming

Epic News: "Storying" Current Events in Mythic Literatures / Jessica Frazier

COLLECTING KNOWLEDGE

Information Delete: The Case of Ancient Carthage / Richard Miles

Knowledge Without Authority / Erica Benner

The Polymath in the Age of Specialisation / Peter Burke

From Honest Ignorance to Dishonest Ideology in Science / Nathan Shachar

COGNITION

Why 16 Billion Cortical Neurons Set Humans Apart From Other Animals, But Are Not Enough / Suzana Herculano-Houzel

Language: A Privileged Window Into the Mind / Mariano Sigman

Digital Information: A Splash in the Cognitive Space / Martin Ingvar

KNOWING YOUR ENEMY

Reading the Russian Mindset / Michael Goodman

Disinformation in the Information Age / Gill Bennett

The Other Side of the Hill / Simon Mayall

ADDICTED TO INFORMATION

Time to Regulate the Development of AI / Maria Borelius

How to Fix the Future: Protecting Democracy in a Post-Privacy Age / Andrew Keen

Nasty, Brutish and Dim: Online Life Reconsidered / Nicholas Carr

INFORMATION ROADS

The Global Impact of Knowledge Exchange / Peter Frankopan

The Society of jesus and its Early Global Networks of Knowledge / J. Ucerler

Information Highways and Information Snarl-ups / Christopher Coker

THE STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY

The Vocation of the University in the Age of Subjectivism / Janne Haaland Matlary

Jihadist Media Strategies / Elisabeth Kendall

Academic Cultures and Explanatory Conflict / Claire Lehmann

Head, Hand and Heart / David Goodhart

The Triggering / Brendan O'Neill

THE STATE OF THE DEBATE

Going Underground: The Intellectual Dark Web / Fraser Nelson

Market Complexity and Remaking the Moral Case for Capitalism / Iain Martin

Meritocracy and the Rise of Populism / Adrian Wooldridge.

Notes:

Location of publisher obtained from publisher website.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Beth & Matthew Mezvinsky Collection Fund for Modern Philosophy.

ISBN:

9789189069619

9189069617

OCLC:

1256542183

Publisher Number:

99989315780