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Exploring Knowledge as a Social Phenomenon
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Interrogating the Testimony of AIs: A Reply to Iizuka’s “Taking It Not at Face Value”, Felix Lo
Published: May 16, 2025 13:06
“Taking It Not at Face Value: A New Taxonomy for the Beliefs Acquired from Conversational AIs” (2024), written by Japanese scholar Shun Iizuka, deals with the question of trust and belief with regard to the way humans interact with conversational... Read…
Interview with Steve Fuller on Social Epistemology and the Future of Education in an Age of Artificial Intelligence, Kirill Delikatnyi
Published: May 14, 2025 11:31
The London Interdisciplinary School, the first new university in the UK for over thirty years, has recently graduated its first cohort of students. It is distinctive in providing a multi-methods-driven, project-based approach to higher education, in which…
As We Know It: A Review of Talbot’s The End of Epistemology of As We Know It, Mark D. West
Published: May 12, 2025 17:22
Brian Talbot’s new book The End of Epistemology As We Know It (2023)[1] represents a challenge to mainstream analytic epistemology that goes well beyond its defiant title. Talbot argues that “standard” epistemic norms—those emphasized by most contemporary…
Operationalizing Disinformation: A Reply to Hayward, Deven K. Burks
Published: May 9, 2025 12:49
In “The Problem of Disinformation: A Critical Approach” (2024), Tim Hayward claims that we can identify a coherent concept of disinformation and apply this concept in the diagnosis and tracking of real-world cases of disinformation. If Hayward is right,…
Finding Work for Epistemic Autonomy: A Reply to Green and to Levy, Jason Kawall
Published: May 7, 2025 12:27
In what follows I defend and elaborate on an account of epistemic autonomy that I first develop in Kawall (2024), in light of two recent pieces in SERRC by Adam Green and Neil Levy. Green (2024) is a response to... Read More › Source
Why We Forget COVID-19: Pandemic Thought Crime, Lee Basham
https://social-epistemology.com/2025/05/05/why-we-forget-covid-19-pandemic-thought-crime-lee-basham/
Published: May 5, 2025 13:39
The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoll’n with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread …—John Milton The next pandemic will be the vaccine. Pandemic thought crime is all too familiar. First... Read More ›…
Elon Musk Meets Max Weber: The Logic of Dogelectics, Steve Fuller
Published: May 2, 2025 11:47
1. Bureaucracy as the Target of Dogelectics ‘Dogelectics’ is my whimsical name for the organizational logic underwriting Elon Musk’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ (DOGE) that US President Donald Trump has empowered—as of January 2025—to streamline…
SERRC: Volume 14, Issue 4, 1–58, April 2025
https://social-epistemology.com/2025/04/30/serrc-volume-14-issue-4-1-58-april-2025/
Published: April 30, 2025 11:16
Volume 14, Issue 4, 1–58, April 2025 ❧ Shoaibi, Nader. 2025. “On Using Genealogies to Debunk Conspiracy Theories: A Reply to Stamatiadis-Bréhier.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 14 (4): 1–6. ❧ Zhumadilova, Kulyash. 2025. “Dr. Pert and the…
Extreme Political Narratives: A Response to Spear’s “Narratives that Divide and Narratives that Bind”, David Lumsden and Joseph Ulatowski
Published: April 28, 2025 19:18
Andrew Spear (2025) provides a useful and sympathetic account of our thoughts about narratives that arise in those with extreme political convictions (Ulatowski and Lumsden 2023). Indeed, his very title: “Narratives that Divide and Narratives that Bind,”…
When Is It Hard to Compromise?, Part II, Juha Räikkä
https://social-epistemology.com/2025/04/24/when-is-it-hard-to-compromise-part-ii-juha-raikka/
Published: April 24, 2025 11:23
On the Difficulty of Compromises Is reaching a compromise more complicated in conflicts that concern principles, judgments, or deep values than in conflicts that concern interests, preferences, commitments, or personal values? The usual reply to this…
When Is It Hard to Compromise?, Part I, Juha Räikkä
https://social-epistemology.com/2025/04/22/when-is-it-hard-to-compromise-part-i-juha-raikka/
Published: April 22, 2025 11:01
Abstract In philosophy, it has been common to distinguish between compromises of principles, judgments, or deep values on the one hand, and compromises of interests, preferences, or personal values on the other hand. Many philosophers have argued that…
COVID was Mismanaged: How Not to Repeat that History? Henry H. Bauer
Published: April 16, 2025 15:08
Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee’s In COVID’S Wake (2025) provides a detailed description and analysis of the mismanagement of the COVID pandemic.[1] Major contributing factors were: • Ignoring long-standing plans for handling such a pandemic, plans based on…
Out of the Echo Chambers and into the Public Sphere: A Habermasian Social Epistemological Critique, Joshua Jose R. Ocon
Published: April 14, 2025 12:42
Abstract The tendency to be more excluding on account of views and beliefs held has intensified all the more. The proliferation of discussions and forums through social media reflects both the potential and challenges of the Internet as a public... Read…
Agential Chemistry and the Advent of Persuadable Matter: A Response to Stepney, Rachel Armstrong
Published: April 11, 2025 13:47
Abstract Susan Stepney’s (2025) reconceptualisation of agential chemistry as programmable agential matter presents a potent challenge: how can matter be designed and engineered to be persuadable? This essay explores her provocation by proposing a practical…