I want to thank Alex Madva (2021) for his thoughtful response and for inviting me to say more about the everyday implications of my arguments. In “Stereotyping as Discrimination: Why Thoughts Can Be Discriminatory” (2021), I propose that stereotyping someone—even… Read More ›
Synthese Topical Collection on “Epistemic Vices: From the Individual to the Collective” Deadline: 31st August 2022 Guest Editors: Robin McKenna (University of Liverpool) and Ian James Kidd (University of Nottingham) Topical Collection Description: A central theme of contemporary vice epistemology… Read More ›
In October 2019, I was contacted by Michael Solana, Vice President of Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, to participate in a new kind of counter-cultural festival called ‘Hereticon’. The COVID-19 pandemic held it up for more than two years, but in… Read More ›
In recent philosophical and social-scientific discussions of fake news and misinformation, it’s become common to suggest that we should not focus on the purported epistemic vices of the individuals who fall prey to the misinformation in question, but rather on… Read More ›
Section 4: Back to a Relativistic Understanding of Standpoint Theory? The Problem of Circularity and, yet another one, Unnecessariness Now, if the standpoint thesis cannot plausibly be weakened so that it leaves room for a neutral ranking of standpoints (that… Read More ›
In two provocative and interesting articles (Ashton 2019, 2020),[1] Natalie Ashton argues that standpoint epistemologies, though are not presented by their own authors as cases of epistemic relativism, are in fact relativistic, in a sense she reconstructs on the basis… Read More ›
In their paper arguing that ‘educational’ solutions to fake news are superior to ‘structural’ solutions, Michel Croce and Tommaso Piazza (2021) challenge my earlier (Rini 2017) claim that the spread of fake news results (partly) from an individually reasonable practice… Read More ›
On 7 February 2022, at the request of one of my former Warwick students, Juvan Gowreeswara, I visited Lady Margaret School in London, one of the UK’s leading girls’ schools, to talk about transhumanism. It wasn’t the first time I… Read More ›
Sometime last year, I had the pleasure of reviewing Ekaterina Lukianova and Igor Tolochin’s “Citizens in Search of Facts: A Case Study from the Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review on Measure 82” (2022). This response offers an opportunity to return to… Read More ›
Critique is back on the agenda of mainstream social science. There was a time when only a minority of social scientists considered critique as the aim of academic work. “Serious sciences”, according to the conviction in large parts of academia,… Read More ›