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HELLEN_LONGINO

                                             May     18, 2016
                                             October  3, 2018
Some material from
"Social Epistemology:   SOCIAL_EPISTEMOLOGY_FIVE
Five Questions"
                                                   (Working from some notes
Hellen E. Longino in outline (see p.150):          from my old "green-gray
                                                   cassette" pocket notebook.)
    (0) Justified self-trust (p.34)
    (1) Venue for critical interaction
    (2) Uptake: criticism changes belief
    (3) accountability to public standards
    (4) equality at outset
      (status can be lost via (3))           I puzzle over my notes:

                                                  Norms (+1).
(4) is interesting:                               Implementation checklist.

  Equality doesn't really                     Maybe I was thinking of using
  reign in the sciences.                      points (0) to (4) as an checklist
                                              of features to be implemented?
  Really: PhDs = Union Cards.
                                              And maybe I liked the
  There's a barrier to entry...               idea of "Norms":
  But then afterwards it's egalitarian?
                                              The norms have to be accepted
  But then not all phDs are equal:            by the community or they're
  state schools vs. the big names             not norms.

                                              Imposing norms from the top--
                                              particularly trying to introduce
                                              changes *after* the community
                                              forms-- is always a problem.

                                              For a designer of "communities"
                                              this is a serious issue:

                                              You'd like to be able to use
                                              trial-and-error and revise as
                                              you go, but every change has
                                              the potential of seeming like
                                              a betrayal.
(0) right at the outset, that seems
  like a stretch:

      "Trust no one,
      least of all       (Everything I know about human psychology,
      yourself."         I learned from hardboiled detective fiction.)

One thing we want from the social
process is a check on our errors.



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