Volume 9, Issue 7, July 2020 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Smith, Nicholas D. 2020. “Collective Belief Questioned.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 9 (7): 58-63. https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-5f0. ❧ Wallace, Rodrick. 2020. “A Comment on Collective Belief.” Social Epistemology Review… Read More ›
Month: July 2020
Collective Belief Questioned, Nicholas D. Smith
In their impressive article, “Collective Belief Defended,” Michael G. Bruno and J. M. Fritzman argue “that there are no fundamental obstacles to ontologically countenancing conscious cognitive collectives” (Bruno and Fritzman 2020, 1) … [please read below the rest of the… Read More ›
A Comment on Collective Belief, Rodrick Wallace
As Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela (1980) and others remark at some length, cognitive phenomena pervade biology from individual cellular function, ‘simple’ wound healing, through immune maintenance and response, tumor control, neural function, social interaction, and so on (e.g., Wallace… Read More ›
Google-Knowing From Within Google’s Political Economy: In Reply to Inna Kouper, Vicki Macknight
I extend thanks to Inna Kouper for her response to “(Google-) Knowing Economics”, which I co-authored with Fabien Medvekcy. The points she raises are fascinating and important, as is this whole area of study. How we come to know with… Read More ›
Debating the Significance of Disagreement: A Review of John Pittard’s Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment, Jonathan Matheson
Richard Feldman’s “Reasonable Religious Disagreements” launched debates about the epistemic significance of disagreement that have been a dominant point of discussion in epistemology as of late. While most of these debates have been concerned with disagreement more generally, Feldman’s original… Read More ›
Further Remarks on the Imaginary, José Maurício Domingues
Brian Singer’s (2020) commentary on “Conceptualizing the Modern Imaginary” (a special issue of Social Epistemology) invites further reflection on the discussion among the contributors. I welcome this opportunity. Many concerns with which I have great sympathy are raised in the… Read More ›
What Did We Learn From L’Aquila? Scientist Citizens and Public Communication, Pamela Pietrucci and Leah Ceccarelli
We enter this conversation precisely to continue this productive exchange on the lessons to be learned from L’Aquila, grounding our response to both DeVasto and Felbacher-Escamilla on our previous work about the same case published in 2019 in Rhetoric &… Read More ›
Review Of Joseph C. Pitt, Heraclitus Redux: Technological Infrastructures and Scientific Change, Andrew Aberdein
Bobby Shaftoe, one of the protagonists of Neal Stephenson’s sprawling epic Cryptonomicon, learns that some tools have infrastructure: the systems necessary for their successful operation far exceed what any one individual could hope to control… [please read below the rest… Read More ›
There is Always Time for Critique, Raphael Sassower
In this sense, the present review essay is a form of critique, just as the anthology under review comprises of fourteen critiques and as a whole is a meta-critique. In philosophical circles, critique dates back to Socrates whose dialogues are… Read More ›
Further Thoughts on “Epistemic Barriers to Rational Voting:” A Response to Faruk Aksoy, Fabio Wolkenstein
I would like to thank Faruk Aksoy (2020) for his thoughtful, clear-sighted and generous engagement with my paper “Epistemic Barriers to Rational Voting: The Case of European Parliament Elections” (2020). In this short piece, I want to respond to the… Read More ›