Epistemology, the philosophy and history of science, and how we decide what counts as knowing.
Writing Schemas & Propositions · 7 December 2025 · Blog post
The essay treats ordinary human errors as hallucinations and explains how metacognition, tools, institutions, and social norms constrain them.
Writing AI in Academic Practice (LinkedIn) · 16 April 2025 · Blog post
Writing Metaphor Hacker · 14 November 2021 · Blog post
The piece argues that ecological psychology must account for learned knowledge, language, social interaction, and deliberate reasoning if it is to explain a directly meaningful human world.
Writing Metaphor Hacker · 3 June 2021 · Blog post
The piece compares history with weather to argue that historical models can identify patterns without supporting precise causal explanations or useful long-range predictions.
Writing Metaphor Hacker · 8 September 2019 · Blog post
The piece presents a revisionist history and anthropology reading list that challenges Eurocentric, state-centred, and linear accounts of human development.
Writing Metaphor Hacker · 28 April 2019 · Blog post
The piece argues that linguistics will improve through a productive interaction between better data and better theory rather than through more rigid definitions alone.
Writing Metaphor Hacker · 8 November 2018 · Blog post
The piece shows how popular retellings of Schrödinger's cat and the butterfly effect turn cautionary scientific analogies into misleading literal claims.
Writing Metaphor Hacker · 16 May 2018 · Blog post
The piece argues that perfect reference is impossible and proposes pragmatic, provisional heuristics for living with the resulting limits on knowledge and rationality.
Writing Medium · 6 February 2018 · Essay
The essay distinguishes learning as the production of knowledge from training as the production of capability in machines and organisations.
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2017 · Journalism
The review presents James C. Scott's account of grain agriculture, taxation, coercion, and the fragile rise of early states.
Writing Metaphor Hacker · 20 September 2013 · Blog post
The piece argues that defenders of science often ridicule low-status targets while excusing equally poor reasoning by prestigious scientists.
Writing Metaphor Hacker · 20 July 2012 · Blog post
The piece argues that scientific and religious knowledge share social practices and narratives despite making different claims about method and utility.
Writing Metaphor Hacker · 17 July 2011 · Blog post
The piece argues that research on internet-assisted recall concerns familiar transactive memory strategies rather than changes to the brain.
Writing Metaphor Hacker · 5 April 2011 · Blog post
The piece explains how life expectancy at birth can misrepresent adult longevity and distort historical narratives.
Writing Metaphor Hacker · 20 March 2011 · Blog post
The piece argues that evidence-based practice requires situated ethical judgement rather than reliance on methods as automatic solutions.
Writing Metaphor Hacker · 17 August 2010 · Blog post
The piece retells a short history of Western philosophy through parodic song fragments.
Writing A2 · c. 2010 · Journalism
The piece argues that accepting complex truths such as climate change depends on justified networks of trust rather than direct personal verification.
Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 21 March 2009 · Essay
The piece compares competing accounts of how networked interaction changes the production and circulation of knowledge.
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2009 · Journalism
The review explains Akerlof and Shiller's argument that economic models must account for money illusion, fairness, and other psychological forces.
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2009 · Journalism
The review argues that David Aaronovitch explains conspiracy theories clearly but underestimates their social basis in relations of trust.
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2009 · Journalism
The review examines several Darwin anniversary works and argues that their detailed scholarship can still reinforce a heroic mythology of scientific progress.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 7 February 2008 · Blog post
The piece argues that scientific reductionism reflects a folk theory of truth and proposes level-specific tendencies as an alternative model of knowledge.
John Elliott and Dominik Lukeš
Research Journal of Philosophy of Education · 2008 · Journal article
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2008 · Journalism
The piece argues that evolutionary psychology can turn socially constructed descriptions of behaviour into unsupported claims of genetic necessity.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 September 2007 · Blog post
The piece argues that growing computing power and information volume will not yield human cognition or knowledge without models of embodied and social processes.
Talks British Educational Research Association Conference · September 2007 · Talk
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 14 June 2007 · Blog post
The piece argues that scientific consensus is rhetorical and that science becomes a legitimate political participant when it enters public debate.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2007 · Blog post
The piece argues that algorithmic descriptions are useful only at particular scales and must coexist with incompatible perspectives.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 January 2007 · Blog post
The piece criticises the use of cognitive-bias research to explain hawkish policy as a deterministic folk theory unsupported by political evidence.
Dominik Lukeš
Research British Educational Research Association Conference, Institute of Education, London · 2007 · Paper
Dominik Lukeš
Research University of East Anglia, Norwich · 2007 · Paper
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2007 · Journalism
The piece compares new atheism with religious responses to evolution and argues that both sides overlook the social role of trust in science and faith.
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2007 · Journalism
The review presents Evelyn Fox Keller's history of the gene as a warning against genetic determinism and an argument for a better public vocabulary of genetics.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 31 October 2006 · Blog post
The piece compares Wikipedia with the Encyclopédie as collaborative, contested, commercially divergent projects for organising and spreading knowledge.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 19 October 2006 · Blog post
The piece argues that foundational mathematical rules were partly established by exploring the consequences of alternative assumptions.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 May 2006 · Blog post
The piece asks whether examples of individual experience can explain social systems or whether those systems require analysis at their own level.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 27 April 2006 · Blog post
The piece cautions that an apparent association between gender equality and sexual satisfaction may be a research-generated symmetry without explanatory meaning.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2006 · Blog post
The piece distinguishes predictions about individual future events from probabilistic descriptions of past trends and treats prediction claims as integrative narratives.
Dominik Lukeš
Research Kognive · 2006 · Paper
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2006 · Journalism
The review praises Rebecca Goldstein's account for combining Gödel's life, incompleteness proof, and intellectual context in an accessible narrative.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 19 December 2005 · Blog post
The post argues that personal experience can motivate both scientific and unscientific conclusions, so scientific authority requires more than an idealised method.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 19 December 2005 · Blog post
The post argues that expertise can narrow judgement, while public decision-making still depends on experts selected through political and group identities.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 12 December 2005 · Blog post
The post defends Wikipedia as a broadly reliable and correctable reference source while arguing that all encyclopaedias require source criticism.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 December 2005 · Blog post
The post examines how the quantity and survival of evidence constrain historical interpretation without preventing extensive scholarship from fragmentary sources.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 December 2005 · Blog post
The post compares competing schemas for interpreting scientific consensus and dissent, using obesity and climate change as examples.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 3 December 2005 · Blog post
The post argues that fiction can supplement academic inquiry by presenting composite experiences and insights that analytic research may not capture.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 28 November 2005 · Blog post
The post argues that complex social systems are more amenable to changes in their conditions than to direct control, while still requiring regulation of harmful outcomes.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 27 November 2005 · Blog post
The post asks how professionals construct and reconcile conflicting models derived from aggregate evidence and salient individual cases.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 November 2005 · Blog post
The post argues that social regularities can be treated like natural laws whose effects may be mitigated even when their exact outcomes cannot be predicted.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 November 2005 · Blog post
The post considers a cautious analogy between Darwin's mechanism of natural selection and Marx's account of historical development.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 21 November 2005 · Blog post
The post uses conflicting claims about homeopathy to examine how facts are reconciled with scientific and symbolic theories of causation.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 18 November 2005 · Blog post
The post distinguishes evolutionary facts from theories of evolutionary mechanisms and proposes a way to discuss intelligent design in science education.
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2002 · Journalism
The review finds Milan Machovec's Smysl lidské existence compelling in its humanism but weakened by elitism and selective use of evidence.
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2002 · Journalism
The review recommends Stephen Jay Gould's critique of scientific racism and the misuse of intelligence testing as a warning against treating science as culturally neutral.
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2002 · Journalism
The review uses Andrew Brown's account of disputes over evolutionary theory to examine how scientific arguments reflect personal, institutional, and moral commitments.
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2001 · Journalism
The piece analyses Tomáš Halík's portrait of Jan Patočka as a hagiographic narrative that constructs a philosophical saint.
Writing Britské listy · c. 2000 · Journalism
The piece argues that racial disparities in test results cannot be interpreted responsibly without examining sampling, social conditions, and the limits of statistical inference.
Writing Lidové noviny · Journalism
The piece reviews three books to show why expertise combines practical competence, social recognition, and contested judgements about evidence.
Writing Lidové noviny · Journalism
The piece argues that education policy often mistakes suggestive similarities and metaphors for causal evidence about prosperity, democracy, employment, and literacy.
Writing Lidové noviny · Journalism
The review criticises Jaroslava Pešková's Role vědomí v dějinách for using opaque philosophical language in place of explanation and evidence.
Research Web project
Writing Medium · Essay
The essay argues that measurement can reduce uncertainty without turning quantified models into the things they represent.
Writing Lidové noviny · Journalism
The review examines several Darwin anniversary works and argues that their detailed scholarship can still reinforce a heroic mythology of scientific progress.
Writing Lidové noviny · Journalism
The review presents Petr Vopěnka's account of horizons and indeterminacy as a human-centred critique of science's claims to objective and complete knowledge.
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