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Full Idea
Foucault's project is to question quite specific claims to cognitive authority, made by many psychologists and social scientists. He has not problems with other domains, such as mathematics and the basic sciences.
Gist of Idea
Foucault challenges knowledge in psychology and sociology, not in the basic sciences
Source
report of Michel Foucault (works [1978]) by Gary Gutting - Foucault: a very short introduction 5
Book Ref
Gutting,Gary: 'Foucault' [OUP 2005], p.53
A Reaction
Nowadays we describe his target as Epistemic Injustice (see book of that title by Miranda Fricker).
Related Idea
Idea 7424 Saying games of truth were merely power relations would be a horrible exaggeration [Foucault]
| 21945 | Foucault originally felt that liberating reason had become an instrument of domination [Foucault, by Gutting] |
| 21942 | Foucault challenges knowledge in psychology and sociology, not in the basic sciences [Foucault, by Gutting] |
| 21941 | Unlike Marxists, Foucault explains thought internally, without deference to conscious ideas [Foucault, by Gutting] |
| 21939 | The author function of any text is a plurality of selves [Foucault, by Gutting] |
| 21116 | Power is used to create identities and ways of life for other people [Foucault, by Shorten] |
| 21940 | Nature is not the basis of rights, but the willingness to risk death in asserting them [Foucault] |