Abstract In On Certainty , Wittgenstein conceives a novel way of dispelling skeptical doubts about our knowledge the external world. He acknowledges that in his attempt to refute skeptic, Moore uncovered epistemologically relevant propositions such as ‘I know this is hand’. But he denies appealing truisms likely succeed refuting skepticism–not because they cannot be doubted, but are not objects...

Vast quantities of data are collected about us and our world: credit card transactions, movements and traffic flows, social networks, disease outbreaks, bird migrations, and flowers blossoming. These datasets span a wide range of public and private information and contexts. However, it is the emergence of a host of mobile phone based citizen sensing platforms that is poised to become the domina...

Abstract As borders kill under the premises of saving lives and distributing order, border regimes emerge in everyday life as sites uncertainty, fragility, doubt. The paper explores spaces uncertainty that pervade at borderlands Europe with a particular focus on island Lampedusa (Italy), it deploys doubt an analytical tool to produce reflexive turn studies. From autoethnographic perspective, ca...

The necessary characteristics of presumptive tests are that they require no more than weeks or months to perform; the-results from such tests be highly reproducible; the significance of test results be validated by empirical correlation; they be capable of being coupled to appropriate metabolic activation systems; they circumvent the requirement that the intact animal (or a similarly limited co...