1. The Anatomy of Judgment
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1990
   Tracing the emergence of science and the social institutions that govern it, The Anatomy of Judgment is an odyssey into what human thinking or judgment mean.
2. The Design of Everyday Things 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1988
   A book about the problems of design and how good design can overcome the frustrations of everyday things.
3. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1983
   
4. The More Information The Less Knowledge
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1995
   While our short-term quest for knowledge must be related to the immediate problems of saving society from environmental and economic collapse, the long-term goals of learning more about humanity's place in the universe must not be neglected.
5. The Phenomenology of Mind 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1807
   The birthplace and essence of Hegel's dialectic.
6. The Phenomenology of Mind: Preface
   Resource Type: Article
   
7. Postmodernism, the Academic Left, and the Crisis of Capitalism
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   Over the past fifty years, postmodern theory — an umbrella term generally used to refer to such diverse theoretical movements and paradigms as post-structuralism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and others — has generally dominated most fields in the humanities and some in the social sciences. But the economic meltdown in 2008 and the subsequent chronic crisis in capitalism have dealt a fatal theoretical blow to the varied and nearly ineffable assemblage of perspectives that are often grouped under the rubric of “postmodernism.” postmodernism was indeed tragedy. It was tragedy for the massive amounts of “cultural capital” that it wasted; it was tragedy for the defrauding of intellectual integrity that it represented; it was tragedy for the abandonment of reality that it recommended. Further, like the financial fiasco, it was criminal.
8. The Price of Books, The Value of Civilization
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   I have come to think that books occupy this valuable position in our civilisation because they are the only medium for thick descriptions of the world that human beings possess. By ‘thick’ description, I mean an extended, detailed, evidence-based, written interpretation of a subject. If you want to write a feature or blog or wikipedia entry, be it about the origins of the first world war; the authoritarian turn in Russia; or the causes and effects of the 2008 financial crisis, in the end you will have to refer to a book. Or at least refer to other people who have referred to books. Even the best magazine pieces and TV documentaries – and the best of these are very good indeed – are only puddle-deep compared with the thick descriptions laid out in books. They are ‘thin’ descriptions and the creators and authors of them will have referred extensively to books to produce their work.
9. Problems of Knowledge and Freedom
   The Russell Lectures
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1971   Published: 1972
   These lectures explore Bertrand Russell's work on empiricism, morality, linguistics and politics.
10. Theory of Knowledge
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1926
    
11. Towards a two-tiered knowledge society
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    On the Conservative government's actions to reduce Internet access and library access to a large portion of the population.
12. The Value of Knowledge: A Miniature Library of Philosophy
    Resource Type: Website
    Tracing the development of ideas on the relation between consciousness and matter through the words of 140 philosophers over 400 years.
13. We Make the Road By Walking 
    Conversations on education and social change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Horton, the founder of the Highlander Folk School, and Freire, a Brazilian education leader, are from two different backgrounds, but their shared views on the use of participatory education in bringing about social change are the basis for this thought-provoking book.
14. Who owns knowledge?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The resurgence of a Romantic view of culture poses a real menace to the free flow of knowledge and threatens to corral it into intellectual Bantustans. The ideas of free speech and open debate become meaningless if we fail to defend a universalist concept of knowledge or if we accept the notion of science as but a local view whose factual claims must defer to cultural and political needs. If scientific debate is constrained to express only sentiments with which people feel comfortable, culturally and politically, then science dies as the line between knowledge and myth becomes eroded.
    

Experts on Connaissances in the Sources Directory

1. Improbable Research
2. International Labour Organization
3. Organization of American States