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Exploring Knowledge as a Social Phenomenon
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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…
Review: Heidegger on Technology’s Danger and Promise in the Age of AI, Alexander Yu. Krouglov
Published: April 9, 2025 11:52
Iain D. Thomson’s Heidegger on Technology’s Danger and Promise in the Age of AI offers a concise yet profoundly insightful engagement with Martin Heidegger’s later philosophy of technology, demonstrating its urgent relevance for navigating our contemporary…
The New Creators: Why Democratic Participation, Not IP, Should Drive Compensation, Ahmed Bouzid
Published: April 7, 2025 12:50
I was listening to a podcast the other day where yet another overwrought artist was furious that her work had been used to train a generative AI model. “They used my paintings without permission,” she said. “They owe me!” I... Read More › Source
Dr. Pert and the Secret of the NIMH: A Review of Ryckman’s Candace Pert, Kulyash Zhumadilova
Published: April 4, 2025 15:26
The opioid epidemic in the USA claimed over half a million people over the years having a devastating impact on individuals and their families. Not many people know that Candace Pert (1946-2013) played a key role in discovering the opioid... Read More ›…
On Using Genealogies to Debunk Conspiracy Theories: A Reply to Stamatiadis-Bréhier, Nader Shoaibi
Published: April 2, 2025 13:21
Let me begin by thanking Alexios Stamatiadis-Bréhier for his insightful discussion (2025), which has helped me think through this material more carefully and explore ways to extend it. In the following, I will first make a few quick clarificatory…