Yuri Cath (2020) has made a number of substantive and interesting comments in relation to my article, “Joint Abilities, Joint Know-How and Collective Knowledge” (2020), that warrant a sustained reply.[1] … [please read below the rest of the article]. Article… Read More ›
Month: February 2021
Caliphate and the Social Epistemology of Podcasts, Joshua Habgood-Coote
In “Caliphate’ and the Problem of Testimony,” Beba Cibralic (2020) argues that the New York Times (NYT) podcast Caliphate represents an epistemic failure that is similar in kind to its failures in reporting on weapons of mass destruction in the… Read More ›
Emancipatory Activist Movements Can Build Collective Intellectual Self-Trust—But Not Always in Ways We Would Like, Inkeri Koskinen
Nadja El Kassar (2020) argues that intellectual self-trust, both individual and especially collective, is a central tool for countering epistemic injustice. It can help individuals and collectives to defend themselves against the effects of epistemic injustice, and especially collective intellectual… Read More ›
“What More Am I to Do?” A Review of Bernard E. Harcourt’s Critique & Praxis: A Critical Philosophy of Illusions, Values, and Action, Misun Dokko
Setting the Stage Bernard E. Harcourt’s Critique & Praxis: A Critical Philosophy of Illusions, Values, and Action (Columbia UP, 2020) proposes a new twenty-first century critical theory. Pinpointing its three dimensions in the title (illusions, values, and action) is useful,… Read More ›
Contextualising Epistemic Injustice in Aid: On Colliding Interests, Colonialism and Counter-Movements, Susanne Koch
I am truly honored that Venkatesh Vaditya found my article “’The Local Consultant Will Not Be Credible’: How Epistemic Injustice is Experienced and Pracised in Development Aid” worthy of being discussed on the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, and… Read More ›
How to be an Inconvenient Scientist? A Reply to Berry Tholen, Alexander Ruser
Priests of Truth or Academic Citizens? The scholar is destined in a peculiar manner for society: his class, more than any other, exists only through society and for society— it is thus his peculiar duty to cultivate the social talents,—an… Read More ›
On the Argument from Double Spaces: A Reply to Moti Mizrahi, Seungbae Park
Abstract Van Fraassen infers the truth of the contextual theory from his observation that it has passed a crucial test. Mizrahi infers the comparative truth of our best theories from his observation that they are more successful than their competitors…. Read More ›
A Brief Reply to Blas Radi from Fernando Rudy-Hiller
Fernando Rudy-Hiller is the Editor of Diánoia Philosophy Review. He offered the following brief reply to Blas Radi’s article “Epistemic Responsibility and Culpable Ignorance: About Editorial and Peer Review in Practical Philosophy.” “Regarding the allegations contained in Blas Radi’s piece about… Read More ›