Sociology of Knowledge, Science and Intellectuals 2007-8

The digital recording of each lecture, listed in the table below, will be made available on this page.

WEEK	LECTURE	SEMINAR
1 (3 Oct)	Introduction: Is being an academic compatible with being an intellectual?	(8 Oct) Introduction to Wikipedia
2 (10 Oct)	What exactly is the social role of the intellectual?	(15 Oct) Seminar
3 (17 Oct)	Do public intellectuals constitute a profession in which one might be trained?	(22 Oct) Steve takes seminars: Wikipedia update
4 (24 Oct)	The paranoid streak in intellectual life: The temptations of power and money.	(29 Oct) Seminar
5 (31 Oct)	Elisabeth takes lecture: Assessed essay questions and ‘Public Sociology’ lecture	(5 Nov) No seminar
6 (7 Nov)	No lecture	(12 Nov) Seminar
7 (14 Nov)	Are intellectuals just downmarket philosophers? The problem of telling the truth in real time, Part I.	(19 Nov) Seminar
8 (21 Nov)	Are intellectuals just downmarket philosophers? The problem of telling the truth in real time, Part II	(26 Nov) Seminar
9 (28 Nov)	Is rule by experts inevitable in liberal societies? The modern history of the problem.	(3 Dec) Seminar
10 (5 Dec)	Is rule by experts inevitable in liberal societies? A recent proposal for scientific citizenship that avoids undue reliance on expertise.	(10 Dec) No seminar: Term over!
Week 11	Lecture
Week 12	Lecture
Week 13	Lecture
Week 14	Lecture
Week 15	Lecture
lecture 7	Lecture
lecture 8	Lecture
Lecture 9	lecture
lecture 10	lecture

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