Miscellaneous Power Point Presentations

There are two approaches to the digital humanities. According to the first approach, digital technologies are applied to the humanities. According to the second, the humanities become a resource for digital technologies. In this talk I explore the idea that narrative and narrative understanding can guide digital technology.

Most work in epistemology (the theory of knowledge) focusses on how individuals can acquire knowledge and eliminate error. But recently attention has been turned to how groups acquire knowledge and eliminate error. In this talk I take up the question of how groups can maximize knowledge acquisition in hostile environments -- for example, when they are the targets of irregular warfare.