Volume 10, Issue 5, May 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Earle, Joshua. 2021. “On Academic Elitism, Implicit Racism, and Social Media.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (5): 66-75. https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-5T3. ❧ Bleicher, Alena. 2021. “Epistemic Humility and the… Read More ›
Month: May 2021
On Academic Elitism, Implicit Racism, and Social Media, Joshua Earle
How 4S Got Absolutely Bodied on Twitter by MC Hammer—yes, that one; no, I’m not kidding—and Deserved It At around noon on February 22, 2021, a remarkable thing happened. MC Hammer (yes, that one; no, I’m not kidding) distilled the… Read More ›
Epistemic Humility and the Social Relevance of Non-Knowledge, Alena Bleicher
In their paper, Parviainen, Kosiki, and Torkkola (2021) take as their point of departure the epistemic paradox of the need for scientific knowledge for evidence-based political decision-making in situations when science has no answers. This ties in with the observation… Read More ›
The Game and How to Play It: A Review of Fuller’s A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition, Darius Khor
What is striking as you turn the final page of Steve Fuller’s (2020) A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition: The Name of the Game, is the enormous ‘weight’ of the text despite its slim one-hundred and forty pages. Without… Read More ›
Commentary on Brian Martin’s “Tactics Against Scheming Diseases,” Sue Curry Jansen
Brian Martin’s backfire model provides a recipe for activists to respond to actions that violate established norms and are publicly perceived as unjust or extreme. It involves situations where disclosure of an offending act causes a public outcry, which fuels… Read More ›
A Review of Steve Fuller’s A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition, Des Hewitt
When writing my last review of the prequel to this latest book by Steve Fuller, Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game (2018), I was on the Greek Island of Zakynthos. I said what a surreal experience that was, as we… Read More ›
Repairing Epistemic Injustice: A Reply to Song, Jennifer Page
The subject of Seunghyun Song’s recent Social Epistemology article is the imperial Japanese government’s practice of conscripting women from occupied countries into sexual slavery during the Asia–Pacific War. At so-called “comfort” stations, the trafficked women were raped by Japanese soldiers,… Read More ›
Bears as Neighbors, Robert Frodeman
Spring has arrived in the Rockies. This is where I live now—in Wyoming, the least populated state in the union, near the town of Jackson, at the junction of the Hoback and Snake Rivers. While still connected to the group… Read More ›
An X Too Far: A Review of Randy Allen Harris’s Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies and Issues and Methods, Alexander William Morales
Science and all that it represents stands at the center of our civilization. There is an increasing interest, both within and without the academy, in the rhetoric of science, and I believe, despite the irony implicit in the request, that… Read More ›
The Passive Subject: A Phenomenological Contribution to STS, Jesper Aagaard
About ten years ago, I had an idea for a PhD project: I wanted to study digital distraction. I had become fascinated by the peculiar experience of suddenly ‘finding’ oneself in the midst of distraction and wanted to study this… Read More ›