What Follows from the Problem of Ignorance?

IF 0.4 3区社会学 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Critical Review Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI:10.1080/08913811.2020.1846309

Zeynep Pamuk

引用次数: 5

Abstract

ABSTRACT In Power Without Knowledge, Jeffrey Friedman develops a critique of social science to argue that current technocratic practices are prone to predictive failures and unintended consequences. However, he does not provide evidence that the cause he singles out—“ideational heterogeneity”—is in fact a non-negligible source of technocratic limitations, more than or alongside better-known problems such as missing data, measurement issues, interpretive difficulties, and researcher bias. Even if we grant ideational heterogeneity, Friedman’s preferred institutional solution of exitocracy does not necessarily follow. His critical epistemology would also be compatible with radical forms of collective action.

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无知的问题会带来什么？

摘要杰弗里·弗里德曼（Jeffrey Friedman）在《无知识的权力》（Power Without Knowledge）一书中对社会科学进行了批判，认为当前的技术官僚做法容易出现预测性的失败和意想不到的后果。然而，他并没有提供证据表明，他所指出的原因——“概念异质性”——实际上是技术官僚局限性的一个不可忽视的来源，除了或与更为知名的问题一起，如数据缺失、测量问题、解释困难和研究者偏见。即使我们赋予概念异质性，弗里德曼偏好的流亡制度解决方案也不一定遵循。他的批判认识论也将与激进的集体行动形式相兼容。

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Critical Review POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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1.30

自引率

12.50%

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期刊介绍： Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society is a political-science journal dedicated to advancing political theory with an epistemological bent. Recurrent questions discussed in our pages include: How can political actors know what they need to know to effect positive social change? What are the sources of political actors’ beliefs? Are these sources reliable? Critical Review is the only journal in which the ideational determinants of political behavior are investigated empirically as well as being assessed for their normative implications. Thus, while normative political theorists are the main contributors to Critical Review, we also publish scholarship on the realities of public opinion, the media, technocratic decision making, ideological reasoning, and other empirical phenomena.