Lani Watson’s The Right To Know: Epistemic Rights and Why We Need Them (Routledge 2021) “… provides the first comprehensive examination of the right to know and other epistemic rights: rights to goods such as information, knowledge and truth.” In… Read More ›
Month: January 2022
The Method of Convergent Realism, Part II, Chris Santos-Lang
Step 3: Provision of Means by which New Discoveries will Force Retesting Science, mathematics, and ethics each have a history in which some claims which were tested many lifetimes ago are now considered outdated. New background assumptions became available, and… Read More ›
The Method of Convergent Realism, Part I, Chris Santos-Lang
This essay seeks to advance a discussion to meet the needs of designers of technologies–including of institutions–which are meant to help users accurately answer questions about reality, including questions about nature and morality. Specifically, it helps clarify the list of… Read More ›
An Autopsy of the Origins of HIV/AIDS, Lee Basham
Abstract This note introduces to a wider audience the hypothesis that global HIV infection is, on an inference to the best explanation model, a result of mistakes made in the production of the Hilary Koprowski (CHAT) Oral Polio Vaccine that… Read More ›
Matters of Social Epistemology: A Comment on Emma Stamm’s Review, Florian Jaton
Ironically, as an academician, there are countless reasons why I don’t successfully engage in academic book reading. Undergraduate classes to prepare and teach, field notebooks to transcribe in NVivo software, languishing joint publication projects, obscure workshops, and, in my case… Read More ›
Testimonial Smothering’s Non-Epistemic Motives: A Reply to Goetze and Lee, Eric Bayruns García
In her article, J. Y. Lee (2021a) presented anticipatory epistemic injustice. A subject suffers anticipatory epistemic injustice if she suppresses her testimony because she anticipates that she will face negative consequences due to her membership in a non-dominant identity group… Read More ›
The Bias that Unites Us: A Reply to Keith Stanovich, Neil Levy
Keith Stanovich (Stanovich 2021a) accuses me of misreading his book at multiple points. I think he’s misread my review, so I guess we’re even. Perhaps neither of us were as clear as we should have been. His main point is… Read More ›
Privacy Norms and Resistances Between the Performative, the Habitual and the Periperformative, Garfield Benjamin
I very much appreciate Ari Ezra Waldman’s thoughtful reply (2021a) to my article “From Protecting to Performing Privacy” (2020) for expanding the discussion and offering challenges to push the concept(s) further. He introduces the role of habit within the ways… Read More ›
Why Didn’t I Pick a Fight About X?: An Inquisitive Response to Harris, Alexander William Morales
My review of Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science commended Randy Allen Harris for not shying away from disciplinary controversy. Particularly, I complimented his decision to organize Case Studies (2018) and Issues and Methods (2020) around the numerous conceptual debates… Read More ›
SERRC: Most Viewed Monthly Posts of 2021
The list below provides the articles, replies, and reviews most viewed on the month of their initial posting in 2021. We invite you to read a sample of the exceptional range of contributions that the SERRC receives. We hope you… Read More ›