Mythodologie

Methodology for studying the rhetoric of the Mazan trial

Analysing judicial rhetoric: the case of the Mazan trial

Critical Thinking as Epistemic Infrastructure: From the Deficit Model to a Social Epistemology of Disinformation Resilience

The dominant approach to disinformation treats it as a problem of individual cognition: people lack critical thinking skills, fall for cognitive biases, or fail to evaluate sources properly. This paper argues that this framing is fundamentally mistaken. Drawing on social epistemology, the cognitive science of reasoning, democratic theory, educational research on collaborative learning, empirical research on disinformation ecosystems, and the emerging practice of open-source intelligence (OSINT), we show that critical thinking has always depended on institutional structures, not merely on individual capacity.

A freedom that subdues us

The texts that follow attack the idea of freedom, supposed to be the distinctive attribute of humans. They are part of a more general critique that targets the notions of Nature and of Humanity: I argue indeed that these two notions form a couple, an ideological unity that makes it possible to ground the dominations by which classes of beings are appropriated by others (as was the case for slaves, as is still very often the case for women, and as fully remains the case today for non-human animals). We shall see that this Humanity/Nature couple, and most particularly the idea of human freedom that follows from it, also strengthens the general subordination of individuals to the social order.

AI and humans: who is learning from whom?

Artificial intelligence is neither an omniscient super-brain nor a mere passive tool. Between these two caricatures, a more subtle reality is taking shape: systems that learn from us, reveal our biases, and force us to question our own cognitive mechanisms.

Thinking with machines: towards augmented intelligence?

Large language models (LLMs) are not merely text-generation tools. They open up a fundamental philosophical question: where does the mind stop?