Humboldt, Public Epistemology, and Professional Certification

Since my collaboration with Nick Cowen, which originates in the pandemic, I have gotten increasingly interested in liberalism’s self-understanding of the state’s role in being a machinery of record (see here) and — in what with a nod to Tom Pink (recall) — I have been calling witnessing truth. (See also this post on Feyerabend.) In this post I want to e…