A very interesting lecture on links between science, controversies, institutions and constitutions. Thanks to Synthetic Zero for posting.
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Interesting links: First half of 2014 (1) – Climate change, water and evidence | 50shadesofevidence says:
[…] Feldman talks about the Nature of evidence (video), Yves Gingras talks about Transformations in the relations between science, policy and […]
the anthropo.scene 
I think he is off on his comment about St.Fish (who surely wouldn’t deny ‘private’ acts of reading, writing, and such) but this is well worth a look to remind us that there is always politics at work.
Who is St. Fish? If you mean Witt (and St. Fish is an auto-correct) then I’d agree that he doesn’t have a precise understanding of rule-following in view…which is what the Private Language Argument is about.