“Breast is Best.” In places where clean water access is a problem, it is well-established that feeding an infant with human milk rather than formula-feeding saves lives. Yet even in countries that don’t struggle with clean water access, like Switzerland,… Read More ›
Month: October 2021
Reply to Giangiuseppe Pili’s “The Missing Dimension—Intelligence and Social Epistemology,” Seumas Miller
Giangiuseppe Pili (2021) has written an interesting response to my article, “Rethinking the Just Intelligence Theory of National Security Intelligence Collection and Analysis: The Principles of Discrimination, Necessity, Proportionality and Reciprocity” (Miller 2021). I agree with much of what Pili… Read More ›
What We Know about Producing Ignorance: A Review of Science and the Production of Ignorance: When the Quest for Knowledge Is Thwarted, Fabien Medvecky
Although it may seem to be a paradoxical claim, we know quite a lot about ignorance. In fact, our knowledge and understanding of ignorance is increasing as the burgeoning field of agnotology gains traction. Kourany and Carrier’s book, Science and… Read More ›
Habit and Performative Privacy, Ari Ezra Waldman
Garfield Benjamin’s provocative paper, “From Protecting to Performing Privacy” (2020), challenges us to think differently. Where many scholars seeking to reinvigorate privacy do so through new definitions and conceptualizations (Solove 2008; Strahilevitz 2005; Richards and Hartzog 2016; Nissenbaum 2009; Waldman… Read More ›
On Anticipatory Epistemic Injustice: Replies to Eric Bayruns García and Trystan S. Goetze, Ji-Young Lee
I am grateful to both Eric Bayruns García and Trystan S. Goetze for their insightful commentaries on my original article, ‘Anticipatory Epistemic Injustice’. In this entry, I pick up on some of their responses to my work … [please read… Read More ›
Symposium in Honor of Joseph Agassi, Nov 17-18, 2021
Symposium in Honor of Joseph Agassi, Nov 17-18, 2021. Please see the pdf with the schedule. Speakers will include Malachi Hacohen, Nathaniel Laor, Jeremy Shearmur, Bill Berkson, Stefano Gattei, Lydia Amir, Ian Jarvie, Raphael Sassower, Michael Segr, Chen Yehezkeli, Nimrod… Read More ›
Is Myside Bias Irrational? A Biased Review of The Bias that Divides Us, Neil Levy
The Bias That Divides Us (2021) is about myside bias, the supposed bias whereby we generate and test hypotheses and evaluate evidence in a way that is biased toward our own prior beliefs. Myside bias prevents convergence in beliefs: if… Read More ›
Towards a Knowledge Socialism: A Digital Sedition, Des Hewitt
It isn’t very often that a book comes along that offers the opportunity to write a review which is facilitated so well by the very logic and structure of the work in question: Knowledge Socialism is an edited and collaborative… Read More ›
Suspecting, Blaming, and Profiling: On Lloyd’s Epistemic Objection to (Racial) Profiling, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
Racial policing is one of the most controversial police practices. Proponents typically argue that racial profiling is an important tool if the police is to use its resources efficiently in the interest of deterring and detecting crime. Critics typically argue… Read More ›
A Further Characterization of Testimonial Void in Dialogue with Other Forms of Testimonial Injustice, Carla Carmona
1. Agreements or Quasi-Agreements I am grateful for Shannon Brick’s (2021) perceptive and stimulating critical commentary on my characterization of the phenomenon of ‘testimonial void’ (TV): a newly identified kind of testimonial injustice (TI) according to which “a speaker withholds… Read More ›