Mathias Girel's blog

Blog of Mathias Girel, lecturer in philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, director of CAPHÉS UAR 3610 CNRS/ENS and of the Centre Cavaillès - USR 3608 République des Savoirs (CNRS/ENS-Collège de France). All posts tagged "agnotologie" can be accessed directly.

'Voyage en agnotologie' radio broadcast

The programme 'La Série documentaire' produced by Perrine Kervran devotes 4 episodes to the subject of “Science and ignorance" with "Voyage en agnotologie". This documentary by Franck Cuveillier, directed by Rafik Zénine and with Mathias Girel as scientific advisor, is divided into four parts - when industrialists trick us (1/4); diseases with invisible causes (2/4); the times when we prefer not to know (3/4); funding science, harvesting ignorance (4/4).

'La Fabrique de l’ignorance' documentary

Presented by Thomas Kausch. Directed by Pascal Vasselin and Franck Cuveillier
Authors: Mathias Girel, Stéphane Foucart, Pascal Vasselin, Franck Cuveillier
Production: ARTE France, Zed.
2020. Running time: 97 min.

The film was awarded the 'Grand Prix AST - ville de Paris', the 'Prix étudiant' and 'Prix des lycéens' at the Pariscience 2021 Festival.

'Transhumances' Hypothèses Notebook

Between 2006 and 2022 this blog featured contributions from a collective of sociology, history and political science researchers from the former RITME unit (Risques, Travail, Marchés, État). RITME has been part of the IRISSO, UMR 7170-1427 (Université Paris Dauphine - PSL, INRAE, CNRS) since 2017. It reports on their work on economic spheres and health and environmental risks.

Ignorance mobilization Website

This online bibliography on the sociology of ignorance by Joanne J. Gaudet (University of Ottawa) served as an starting point for the set of resources described here. Site under construction

Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective

This open-access forum for intellectual inquiry which publishes critical replies to journal articles, book reviews, and article reviews, and hosts debates exploring knowledge as a social phenomenon. It operates in tandem with the following review : Social Epistemology A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy