Miranda Fricker’s Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2007) has inspired an incredible amount of work, both with philosophy and more broadly. Some of this work is more theoretical in nature: for example, trying to refine our understanding… Read More ›
In this engaging paper, “Who’s to Blame? Hermeneutical Misfire, Forward-Looking Responsibility, and Collective Accountability” (2021), Hilkje Hänel offers an account of the ways in which both victims and perpetrators of sexual violation are subject to cognitive distortions due to sexist… Read More ›
Nadja El Kassar (2021) argues that collective intellectual self-trust can both block the negative effects of epistemic injustice and support active resistance to it. Collectives enable those who might otherwise suffer the corrosive effects of having their epistemic capacities routinely… Read More ›
The connections between echo chambers, on the one hand, and epistemic injustice and ignorance, on the other hand, are important to identify and theorize, and have indeed started to draw the attention of philosophers working on these issues (Nguyen 2020;… Read More ›
Imagine, if you will, that you are present in the Garden of Eden, a background character at the big show. To your left is an important tree with some apples on it, but there are also other trees in the… Read More ›
In “Caliphate and the Social Epistemology of Podcasts”, Josh Habgood-Coote (2021) writes that the New York Times’ (referred to as the Times throughout) podcast Caliphate’s central flaw is that it “failed to accurately represent the credibility of someone whose speech… Read More ›
Volume 10, Issue 4, April 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Schyfter, Pablo. 2021. “Knowing for Something’s Sake.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (4): 37-44. https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-5Nm. ❧ Bagg, Samuel. 2021. “Reply to Cyril Hédoin’s ‘The “Epistemic Critique” of… Read More ›
In ‘How to Do Things with Knowledge,’ (2021) Massimiliano Simons presents a comprehensive and insightful response to ‘Knowing Use’ (2020) in which I contend that functionality is a fundamental quality of all knowledge claims. Simons considers the article’s originality and… Read More ›
The core of Cyril Hédoin’s (2021) essay is a critique of a recent article by Julian Reiss (2019), which claims to offer an “epistemic critique” of epistocracy.[1] As Hédoin explains in §I, in short, Reiss offers two reasons that epistocracy… Read More ›
Professor Blas Radi’s article, “Epistemic Responsibility and Culpable Ignorance: About Editorial and Peer Review in Practical Philosophy” (2021), presents an interesting series of problems and proposals as a reaction to a particularly defective article on gender questions published by Dianoia…. Read More ›
The following YouTube video—”Humanities Center’s Virtual Book Launch: William T. Lynch”—recorded on April 1 (2021) at Wayne State University—offers an engaging discussion—initially among Bill Lynch and Steve Fuller—about the issues and arguments raised in Lynch’s Minority Report: Dissent and Diversity… Read More ›
Volume 10, Issue 3, March 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Schwengerer, Lukas. 2021. “Revisiting Online Intellectual Virtues.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (3): 38-45. ❧ Catala, Amandine. 2021. “Echo Chambers, Epistemic Injustice, and Ignorance.” Social Epistemology Review… Read More ›
Virtual Book Launch & Presentation Thursday, April 1, 2021, 1 p.m. EST Join us on Zoom at: https://wayne-edu.zoom.us/j/94502303155?pwd=QXlUZlJxLy9XeEhkemg3MkFVVlJSdz09 Zoom Meeting ID: 945 – 0230 – 3155 Password: 076775 Join author William T. Lynch and moderator Steve Fuller for a conversation… Read More ›
Paul Smart’s and Robert Clowes’s “Intellectual Virtues and Internet-Extended Knowledge” (2021) in response to my “Online Intellectual Virtues and the Extended Mind” (2020) raises some important questions for the proposal of intellectual virtues in an online environment. These questions aim… Read More ›