Erik J Olsson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1043792 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Erik J Olsson |
| PRENOMES | Erik J |
| SOBRENOME | Olsson |
| ASSINATURA | OLSSON E J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4207-3721 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
An inclusive, empirically grounded inventory facilitates recognition of diverse area-based conservation of nature
As the international community strives to conserve 30% of Earth’s lands and waters by 2030, the full extent of area-based conservation remains unclear. Official databases do not fully recognize and track the diversity of conservation-relevant governance systems, hindering conservation research, policy, planning, and action. Here, we describe and test an inclusive, empirically grounded approach to documenting area-based governance systems that pot…
Academic freedom and the decolonisation of knowledge
Decolonisation aims at exposing the ills of colonialism in an attempt to undo their long-standing effects. Important criticism of curriculum decolonisation has focused on potential conflicts with academic freedom. However, this criticism has to some extent suffered from a perceived lack of agreement on the concept and status of academic freedom itself. The present study views decolonisation in South Africa from the perspective of the internationa…
Explicationist Epistemology and the Explanatory Role of Knowledge
It has been argued that much of contemporary epistemology can be unified under Carnap’s methodology of explication, which originated in the neighboring field of philosophy of science. However, it is unclear to what extent epistemological theories that emphasize the explanatory role of knowledge fit into this picture, Kornblith’s natural kind epistemology and Williamson’s knowledge first approach being cases in point. In this connection, I raise t…
Matthew O. Jackson, The Human Network
This is a fascinating, compelling and insightful book by Matthew O. Jackson, the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University. Jackson is ideally placed to write a book on social networks, as much of his own published research centers around the topic. Covering a very substantial portion of the relevant literature, the book has as a purpose to introduce the reader to the world of social networks and their far-reaching and often…
Shadow Management
We argue that the neoliberal tradition and new public management reforms of the public sector effectively erode the core (liberal) democratic values of the rule of law and transparency. The tension between public law and managerially-influenced governmental policy is in practice resolved by the emergence of what we call “shadow management” in public administration, whereby managerial decisions that clash with constitutional and administrative law…
What Price Equality? The Academic Cost of Government Supervised Gender Mainstreaming at Swedish Universities
This article is focused on gender mainstreaming at Swedish universities in the period from 2016–2019. Our research questions are: (a) In what form was gender mainstreaming introduced and did the form itself affect scholar’s academic rights? (b) Was the process in question compatible with international standards of institutional autonomy? (c) What effect did gender mainstreaming have on scholars’ ability to exercise their academic rights in accord…
Truth tracking performance of social networks
Our beliefs and opinions are shaped by others, making our social networks crucial in determining what we believe to be true. Sometimes this is for the good because our peers help us form a more accurate opinion. Sometimes it is for the worse because we are led astray. In this context, we address via agent-based computer simulations the extent to which patterns of connectivity within our social networks affect the likelihood that initially undecid…
A diachronic perspective on peer disagreement in veritistic social epistemology
The main issue in the epistemology of peer disagreement is whether known disagreement among those who are in symmetrical epistemic positions undermines the rationality of their maintaining their respective views. Douven and Kelp have argued convincingly that this problem is best understood as being about how to respond to peer disagreement repeatedly over time, and that this diachronic issue can be best approached through computer simulation. How…
From Impact to Importance
In a legendary technical report, the Google founders sketched a wisdom-of-crowds justification for PageRank arguing that the algorithm, by aggregating incoming links to webpages in a sophisticated way, tracks importance (quality, relevance, etc.) on the web. On this reading of the report, webpages that have a high impact as measured by PageRank are supposed to be important webpages in a sense of importance that is not reducible to mere impact or …
Engel vs. Rorty on truth
Trust and the value of overconfidence
Norms of assertion and communication in social networks
Do computer simulations support the Argument from Disagreement
Kinds of Learning and the Likelihood of Future True Beliefs
We reply to Christoph Jäger's criticism of the conditional probability solution (CPS) to the value problem for reliabilism due to Goldman and Olsson (2009). We argue that while Jäger raises some legitimate concerns about the compatibility of CPS with externalist epistemology, his objections do not in the end reduce the plausibility of that solution
The Value of Knowledge
A problem occupying much contemporary epistemology is that of explaining why knowledge is more valuable than mere true belief. This paper provides an overview of this debate, starting with historical figures and early work. The contemporary debate in mainstream epistemology is then surveyed and some recent developments that deserve special attention are highlighted, including mounting doubts about the prospects for virtue epistemology to solve th…
From Diaspora with Dreams, Dreaming about Diaspora
Klein on the Unity of Cartesian and Contemporary Skepticism
Reliability conducive measures of coherence
Guest editor’s introduction
Not Giving the Skeptic a Hearing
Pragmatist responses to radical skepticism do not receive much attention in contemporary analytic epistemology. This observation is my motivation for undertaking a search for a coherent pragmatist reply to radical doubt, one that can compete, in terms of clarity and sophistication, with the currently most popular approaches, such as contextualism and relevant alternatives theory. As my point of departure I take the texts of C. S. Peirce and Willi…
Against coherence
Can We Trust Our Memories? C. I. Lewis's Coherence Argument
Avoiding Epistemic Hell
What Is the Problem of Coherence and Truth?
In inquiry we often proceed by gathering information from different sources that may not be very trustworthy in themselves, and all we have to go on may well be the degree to which the reports cohere. If they do cohere or agree to a large extent we tend to think that the information is credible.
Corroborating Testimony and Ignorance
In an earlier paper, I objected to certain elements of L. Jonathan Cohen's account of corroborating testimony (Olsson [2002]). In their response to my article, Bovens, Fitelson, Hartmann and Snyder ([2002]) suggest some significant improvements of the probabilistic model which I used in assessing Cohen's theses and answer some additional questions which my study raised. More problematically, they also seek to defend Cohen against my criticism. I …
Norms of assertion and communication in social networks
Reliability conducive measures of coherence
Truth tracking performance of social networks
Our beliefs and opinions are shaped by others, making our social networks crucial in determining what we believe to be true. Sometimes this is for the good because our peers help us form a more accurate opinion. Sometimes it is for the worse because we are led astray. In this context, we address via agent-based computer simulations the extent to which patterns of connectivity within our social networks affect the likelihood that initially undecid…
Corroborating Testimony, Probability and Surprise
L. Jonathan Cohen has claimed that in cases of witness agreement there is an inverse relationship between the prior probability and the posterior probability of what is being agreed: the posterior rises as the prior falls. As is demonstrated in this paper, this contention is not generally valid. In fact, in the most straightforward case exactly the opposite is true: a lower prior also means a lower posterior. This notwithstanding, there is a grai…
Trust and the value of overconfidence
Do computer simulations support the Argument from Disagreement
Can We Trust Our Memories? C. I. Lewis's Coherence Argument
Corroborating Testimony and Ignorance
In an earlier paper, I objected to certain elements of L. Jonathan Cohen's account of corroborating testimony (Olsson [2002]). In their response to my article, Bovens, Fitelson, Hartmann and Snyder ([2002]) suggest some significant improvements of the probabilistic model which I used in assessing Cohen's theses and answer some additional questions which my study raised. More problematically, they also seek to defend Cohen against my criticism. I …
Not Giving the Skeptic a Hearing
Pragmatist responses to radical skepticism do not receive much attention in contemporary analytic epistemology. This observation is my motivation for undertaking a search for a coherent pragmatist reply to radical doubt, one that can compete, in terms of clarity and sophistication, with the currently most popular approaches, such as contextualism and relevant alternatives theory. As my point of departure I take the texts of C. S. Peirce and Willi…
The Value of Knowledge
A problem occupying much contemporary epistemology is that of explaining why knowledge is more valuable than mere true belief. This paper provides an overview of this debate, starting with historical figures and early work. The contemporary debate in mainstream epistemology is then surveyed and some recent developments that deserve special attention are highlighted, including mounting doubts about the prospects for virtue epistemology to solve th…
Avoiding Epistemic Hell
A coherence interpretation of semi‐revision
Competing for Acceptance Lehrer's Rule and the Paradoxes of Justification
What Is the Problem of Coherence and Truth?
In inquiry we often proceed by gathering information from different sources that may not be very trustworthy in themselves, and all we have to go on may well be the degree to which the reports cohere. If they do cohere or agree to a large extent we tend to think that the information is credible.
Corroborating Testimony and Ignorance
In an earlier paper, I objected to certain elements of L. Jonathan Cohen's account of corroborating testimony (Olsson [2002]). In their response to my article, Bovens, Fitelson, Hartmann and Snyder ([2002]) suggest some significant improvements of the probabilistic model which I used in assessing Cohen's theses and answer some additional questions which my study raised. More problematically, they also seek to defend Cohen against my criticism. I …
Corroborating Testimony, Probability and Surprise
L. Jonathan Cohen has claimed that in cases of witness agreement there is an inverse relationship between the prior probability and the posterior probability of what is being agreed: the posterior rises as the prior falls. As is demonstrated in this paper, this contention is not generally valid. In fact, in the most straightforward case exactly the opposite is true: a lower prior also means a lower posterior. This notwithstanding, there is a grai…
Avoiding Epistemic Hell
Can We Trust Our Memories? C. I. Lewis's Coherence Argument
Not Giving the Skeptic a Hearing
Pragmatist responses to radical skepticism do not receive much attention in contemporary analytic epistemology. This observation is my motivation for undertaking a search for a coherent pragmatist reply to radical doubt, one that can compete, in terms of clarity and sophistication, with the currently most popular approaches, such as contextualism and relevant alternatives theory. As my point of departure I take the texts of C. S. Peirce and Willi…
Against coherence
Reliability conducive measures of coherence
Guest editor’s introduction
From Diaspora with Dreams, Dreaming about Diaspora
Klein on the Unity of Cartesian and Contemporary Skepticism
Kinds of Learning and the Likelihood of Future True Beliefs
We reply to Christoph Jäger's criticism of the conditional probability solution (CPS) to the value problem for reliabilism due to Goldman and Olsson (2009). We argue that while Jäger raises some legitimate concerns about the compatibility of CPS with externalist epistemology, his objections do not in the end reduce the plausibility of that solution
The Value of Knowledge
A problem occupying much contemporary epistemology is that of explaining why knowledge is more valuable than mere true belief. This paper provides an overview of this debate, starting with historical figures and early work. The contemporary debate in mainstream epistemology is then surveyed and some recent developments that deserve special attention are highlighted, including mounting doubts about the prospects for virtue epistemology to solve th…
Norms of assertion and communication in social networks
Do computer simulations support the Argument from Disagreement
Trust and the value of overconfidence
Engel vs. Rorty on truth
From Impact to Importance
In a legendary technical report, the Google founders sketched a wisdom-of-crowds justification for PageRank arguing that the algorithm, by aggregating incoming links to webpages in a sophisticated way, tracks importance (quality, relevance, etc.) on the web. On this reading of the report, webpages that have a high impact as measured by PageRank are supposed to be important webpages in a sense of importance that is not reducible to mere impact or …
Matthew O. Jackson, The Human Network
This is a fascinating, compelling and insightful book by Matthew O. Jackson, the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University. Jackson is ideally placed to write a book on social networks, as much of his own published research centers around the topic. Covering a very substantial portion of the relevant literature, the book has as a purpose to introduce the reader to the world of social networks and their far-reaching and often…
Shadow Management
We argue that the neoliberal tradition and new public management reforms of the public sector effectively erode the core (liberal) democratic values of the rule of law and transparency. The tension between public law and managerially-influenced governmental policy is in practice resolved by the emergence of what we call “shadow management” in public administration, whereby managerial decisions that clash with constitutional and administrative law…
What Price Equality? The Academic Cost of Government Supervised Gender Mainstreaming at Swedish Universities
This article is focused on gender mainstreaming at Swedish universities in the period from 2016–2019. Our research questions are: (a) In what form was gender mainstreaming introduced and did the form itself affect scholar’s academic rights? (b) Was the process in question compatible with international standards of institutional autonomy? (c) What effect did gender mainstreaming have on scholars’ ability to exercise their academic rights in accord…
Truth tracking performance of social networks
Our beliefs and opinions are shaped by others, making our social networks crucial in determining what we believe to be true. Sometimes this is for the good because our peers help us form a more accurate opinion. Sometimes it is for the worse because we are led astray. In this context, we address via agent-based computer simulations the extent to which patterns of connectivity within our social networks affect the likelihood that initially undecid…
A diachronic perspective on peer disagreement in veritistic social epistemology
The main issue in the epistemology of peer disagreement is whether known disagreement among those who are in symmetrical epistemic positions undermines the rationality of their maintaining their respective views. Douven and Kelp have argued convincingly that this problem is best understood as being about how to respond to peer disagreement repeatedly over time, and that this diachronic issue can be best approached through computer simulation. How…
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