Explaining Absolute Absences: A Critical Reply to Scott Frickel, Abby Kinchy

Author Information: Abby Kinchy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, kincha@rpi.edu

Kinchy, Abby. “Explaining Absolute Absences: A Critical Reply to Scott Frickel.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 3, no. 4 (2014): 24-29.

The PDF of the article gives specific page numbers. Shortlink: http://wp.me/p1Bfg0-1nO

Please refer to:

• Croissant, Jennifer L. “Agnotology: Ignorance and Absence or Towards a Sociology of Things That Aren’t There.”Social Epistemology 28, no. 1 (2014): 4-25.
• Frickel, Scott. “Absences: Methodological Note about Nothing, in Particular.”Social Epistemology 28, no. 1 (2014): 86-95.
• Gaudet, Joanne. “Absence and Presence in Science: Critical Reply to the Special Issue on ‘Absences’.”Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 3, no. 4 (2014): 16-23.

In science and technology studies, the recent turn to studies of ignorance (including secrecy, suppression of research agendas, and abandoned knowledge) has offered new ways of revealing that “things could have been otherwise”. In his insightful contribution on how to…