I want to thank Alex Madva (2021) for his thoughtful response and for inviting me to say more about the everyday implications of my arguments. In “Stereotyping as Discrimination: Why Thoughts Can Be Discriminatory” (2021), I propose that stereotyping someone—even… Read More ›
Erin Beeghly’s “Stereotyping as Discrimination” is—characteristically—clear, thorough, and persuasive, rich with incisive arguments and thought-provoking case studies. In defending the view that stereotyping often constitutes discrimination, she makes a powerful case that, “Living ethically means cultivating a certain kind of… Read More ›
Author Information: Kamili Posey, Kingsborough College, Kamili.Posey@kbcc.cuny.edu. Posey, Kamili. “Scientism in the Philosophy of Implicit Bias Research.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 10 (2018): 1-15. Kamili Posey’s article was posted over two instalments. You can read the first… Read More ›
Author Information: Kamili Posey, Kingsborough College, Kamili.Posey@kbcc.cuny.edu. Posey, Kamili. “Scientism in the Philosophy of Implicit Bias Research.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 10 (2018): 1-16. Kamili Posey’s article will be posted over two instalments. The pdf of the article… Read More ›
Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies is an easy book for me to review. Why do I make such an audacious statement at the start of this review? Because this book is inextricably linked to the last two books I… Read More ›
As a scholar of both religion and conspiracy theories, it was perhaps inevitable that Nicholas Smith’s (2022) recent article would catch my attention. Happily, I agreed with his conclusions in the main, but I was moved to respond nonetheless, as… Read More ›
Using examples from an ethnographic survey I conducted with manufacturers, researchers and users of so-called intelligent systems, this paper seeks to show that the relationship between humans and machines raises at least three categories of problems. The first one refers… Read More ›
I am not a philosopher. I am a mathematician. I have taught mathematics for more than 30 years, and so, when it comes to knowledge, I am comfortable only where certainty can be obtained, or, if it cannot be obtained,… Read More ›
A two-day symposium on the philosophy of the social sciences, held at the Department of Sociology of the University of Trento, Italy, on May 10-11, 2022. “The Problem of the Persistence of Magical Thinking” May 10, 2022, Trento, Department of… Read More ›
Donald J. Trump, still very much deep in the throes and the long bloom of his psychopathic narcissism, late in life as his full-on flowering may be taking place, has taught me, and continues to teach me, several very important… Read More ›
In a recent article in Social Epistemology, Iaan Reynolds (2021) weights in on the discussion about normative foundations and progress in critical theory. Despite my sympathies for his overall account of critical theory, that takes its cues from early Frankfurt… Read More ›
A two-day symposium on the philosophy of the social sciences, to be held at the Department of Sociology of the University of Trento, Italy, on May 10-11. On Tuesday, May 10 (3-5 pm, Italian time), Joseph Agassi and Ian Jarvie… Read More ›
What do we mean when we talk about models? We mean simulacra, miniatures, objects which serve as physical abstractions in order to make a point or test a theory. More broadly speaking, models are mental or physical objects that belong… Read More ›
Among the many concepts that have fallen under suspicion in critical theory, the concept of progress may be the most contested. In “The Dialectic of Progress and the Cultivation of Resistance in Critical Social Theory,” Iaan Reynolds focuses on the… Read More ›