Reminder for 19th February:
"The Value of Knowledge: why has knowledge become a commodity,
is it inevitable, and what can be done about it?"
This is a one-day seminar is concerned with how knowledge is increasingly
taking on the form of a tradeable commodity. The following themes will be
explored:
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* The history of the concept of Value from Adam Smith and the Physiocrats
through the marcoeconomics of Keynes and Friedman up to Rational Decision
Theory which treats families as "firms producing utility" like any other
factory and the Complexity Theorists modelling the world as a network of
little Turing Machines sending messages to each other.
* The Theory of Knowledge from the Classical period up to Post-structuralism
and Liberation Epistemology.
* The revelance of Hegelian conceptions to resolving the problems of
historical
analysis, in particular the relation between Value & Knowledge.
* Ethics and political economy.
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The Seminar will presented by Andy Blunden, with plenty of time for discussion.
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* For further information phone Kathryn Clarke on 9344 8985 *
* or email Kathryn at [EMAIL PROTECTED] *
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* Andy Blunden, WWW = http://werple.net.au/~andy/home.htm *
* Home = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work = [EMAIL PROTECTED] *
* tel 061 3 9380 9435 (H) 3 9344 7064 (W) 3 9348 2253 (F) *
* Value of Knowledge: http://werple.net.au/~andy/19feb99.htm *
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LL.VB
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