Helen Lauer
Biographic Data
| ID | 607189 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Lauer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Lauer |
| SIGNATURE | LAUER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Dar es Salaam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7445-7247 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How to do things with insecure extensions
The multi-purpose of publicizing a scientific consensus includes a communicative strategy by which scientific institutions accommodate the weighty social and economic demands to demonstrate they are collaborating and cooperating with non-scientific sectors of society, relying on a wide range of spokespeople and representatives to carry out the delivery of their consensus in formal, institutionally arranged, professional and impersonal public sett…
Scientific Consensus, Doctrinal Paradox and Discursive Dilemma
Global ignorance about Africa continues to sustain inappropriate global interventions to resolve public health crises, often with disastrous consequences. To explain why this continues to happen, I marshal two theorems that predict basic statistical properties, called ‘the doctrinal paradox’ and ‘the discursive dilemma’, which underlie scientific consensus formation and evidence-based decision making on a global scale. These mathematical results …
Implicitly Racist Epistemology
This essay explores why examples of mainstream philosophy of cognition and applied phenomenology demonstrate the implicit bias that they treat as their subject matter, whether the authors of these works intend or approve of their doing so. It is shown why egalitarian intuitions, which form the basis for ideal models of justice appealing to elites in racially stratified societies, provide an inadequate framework for illuminating and dismantling th…
Wiredu and Eze on Good Governance
Identity meets nationality
Depreciating African Political Culture
The global arena is dominated by the popular conviction that Africans require foreign direction in the socioeconomic management of their own societies. This essay challenges the belief that economic development in contemporary Africa is impeded by bad governance
Implicitly Racist Epistemology
This essay explores why examples of mainstream philosophy of cognition and applied phenomenology demonstrate the implicit bias that they treat as their subject matter, whether the authors of these works intend or approve of their doing so. It is shown why egalitarian intuitions, which form the basis for ideal models of justice appealing to elites in racially stratified societies, provide an inadequate framework for illuminating and dismantling th…
Depreciating African Political Culture
The global arena is dominated by the popular conviction that Africans require foreign direction in the socioeconomic management of their own societies. This essay challenges the belief that economic development in contemporary Africa is impeded by bad governance
Identity meets nationality
Wiredu and Eze on Good Governance
Implicitly Racist Epistemology
This essay explores why examples of mainstream philosophy of cognition and applied phenomenology demonstrate the implicit bias that they treat as their subject matter, whether the authors of these works intend or approve of their doing so. It is shown why egalitarian intuitions, which form the basis for ideal models of justice appealing to elites in racially stratified societies, provide an inadequate framework for illuminating and dismantling th…
Scientific Consensus, Doctrinal Paradox and Discursive Dilemma
Global ignorance about Africa continues to sustain inappropriate global interventions to resolve public health crises, often with disastrous consequences. To explain why this continues to happen, I marshal two theorems that predict basic statistical properties, called ‘the doctrinal paradox’ and ‘the discursive dilemma’, which underlie scientific consensus formation and evidence-based decision making on a global scale. These mathematical results …
How to do things with insecure extensions
The multi-purpose of publicizing a scientific consensus includes a communicative strategy by which scientific institutions accommodate the weighty social and economic demands to demonstrate they are collaborating and cooperating with non-scientific sectors of society, relying on a wide range of spokespeople and representatives to carry out the delivery of their consensus in formal, institutionally arranged, professional and impersonal public sett…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Corporate governance (2 works) · Dilemma (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research (2 works)