“Public opinion doesn’t exist.” — Pierre Bourdieu 1972/79. This essay aims at rethinking two important conceptions for use in social and political science: (1) Public sentiment, to be used interchangeably, as is the common practice, with public opinion, and; (2)… Read More ›
Volume 12, Issue 5, 1-71, May 2023 Symposium on Moti Mizrahi’s For and Against Scientism: Science, Methodology, and the Future of Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022): ❦ Vrahimis, Andreas. 2023. “Algorithmic Opinion Mining and the History of Philosophy: A Response… Read More ›
Abstract Because of the pejorative connotation of the concept of “conspiracy theory”, many philosophers have proposed that the concept should be redefined. Their worry is that if conspiracy theories are considered implausible by definition, then the theories cannot get fair… Read More ›
A few months into the pandemic, and I was surprised so many people explicitly rejected expert advice. Mostly, I was shocked by their arguments: they said that scientists keep changing their minds; that not all scientists agree on what we… Read More ›
Abstract In this article, I seek to engage Xabier Renteria-Uriarte’s contention that social myth of the oppressed people help them to launch struggles to recover or retain their social identity, culture and knowledges against the threats posed by state power… Read More ›
As Moti Mizrahi’s editorial introduction points out, For and Against Scientism ‘arises from an exchange between several scholars over the pages of the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective’ (Mizrahi 2022, 18) in response to Mizrahi (2019). Mizrahi (2019) defended… Read More ›
Venus may once have had an atmosphere more congenial to life than its current greenhouse conditions. This fact is, however, vacant of ethical consequence. We have no cause to believe sentient beings ever lived on Venus, let alone that an… Read More ›
In our paper “How to Fight Linguistic Injustice in Science: Equity Measures and Mitigating Agents” (2023), we discuss the challenges that non-native English speakers face in communicating their scientific findings. We explored several obstacles they/we encounter, with the most severe… Read More ›
On a non-summative, non-supervenient (NSNS) account of group knowledge, a group may know that p without any members knowing or even believing that p. Additionally, group knowledge does not supervene on the mental states of the individual members of the… Read More ›
In a time when the layperson theorizes at length on social media about the impact of artificial intelligence (such as ChatGPT, in recent months) on our daily lives, an academic treatment of the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on education… Read More ›