Volume 9, Issue 9, September 2020 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Pittard, John. 2020. “The Epistemic Challenge of Religious Disagreement: Responding to Matheson.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 9 (9): 55-64. ❧ Abbate, Cheryl. 2020. “Nonculpably Ignorant Meat Eaters… Read More ›
Month: September 2020
The Epistemic Challenge of Religious Disagreement: Responding to Matheson, John Pittard
I am grateful for Jonathan Matheson’s recent review (Matheson 2020) of my book, Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment (Pittard 2019). Matheson’s excellent summary reflects a very careful reading, and his critical commentary offers important objections that deserve reflection and response…. Read More ›
Nonculpably Ignorant Meat Eaters & Epistemically Unjust Meat Producers, Cheryl Abbate
In the United States (U.S.) alone, nearly 10 billion farmed animals are raised and killed for food each year, and approximately 99% of these animals are raised in factory farms, where they are mutilated without anesthetic, confined to cramped and… Read More ›
Further Remarks on “Epistemic Barriers to Rational Voting: The Case of European Parliament Elections,” Faruk Aksoy
I would like to thank Fabio Wolkenstein for his kind response to my comments on his paper “Epistemic Barriers to Rational Voting: The Case of European Parliament Elections” (2020). Below, I will make several clarifications and expansions for my previous… Read More ›
A Dialogue Over Hierarchy and the Political Imaginary, Craig Browne
I would like to thank Brian Singer for his stimulating and very generous commentary on my piece, as well as the Special Issue on Conceptualising the Political Imaginary as a whole. I have learned a great deal from his work… Read More ›
The Need for an Imaginative Politics, Mats Rosengren
Gothenburg, Sweden, May through July 2020—An Introduction of Sorts[1]. Ever since the ‘birth of politics’ in ancient Greece, where philosophers and rhetoricians competed to educate the young, the importance of the social imaginary for the founding of cities and creating… Read More ›
Collective Belief Explicated: Replies to Wallace and Smith, Michael G. Bruno and J.M. Fritzman
We are grateful to Rodrick Wallace (2020) and Nicholas D. Smith (2020) for their questions and comments on Bruno and Fritzman (2020). Wallace’s comments largely complement our article. Agreeing with Atlan and Cohen (1998), he defines cognition as the choice… Read More ›
Are Meat-Eaters Epistemically Unlucky? Bob Fischer
Thanks to the editors of the SERRC for the opportunity to comment on C. E. Abbate’s excellent essay, “The Epistemology of Meat-Eating.” Abbate’s goal is to explain why most meat-eaters continue consuming animal products after having learned about the plight… Read More ›
Science Denial, Pseudoskepticism, and Philosophical Deficits Undermining Public Understanding of Science: A Response to Sharon E. Mason, Lawrence Torcello
In this reply, I examine the relationship between science denialism and education. Specifically I want to address how the mode of science denial I identify as pseudoskepticism relates to information deficits of a philosophical nature … [please read below the… Read More ›