This section of the AT Blog explores the concept of truth especially as it pertains to anthropology.

The Scottish metaphysician James Frederick Ferrier in his Institutes of Metaphysic: the Theory of Knowing and Being (1854) coined the terms epistemology and agnoiology. Epistemology for him was the study of the nature of more truthful knowledge. Social epistemology, a later addition, is the study of how economic, political and cultural matters influence the formulation of such knowledge. Agnoiology, a tongue-twister of a term, is the study of knowing how less truthful, or just plain ignorant, knowledge gets formulated. Social agnoiology is the study of how economic, political and cultural matters influence the formulation of less truthful knowledge.

The Truth or Consequences section of the AT Blog welcomes both epistemological and agnoiological texts. It is a place to think about, debate over truth and its ignorant consequences.

“Truth or Consequences” by kxlly is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0