Michael Collins has provided comments on my article on national security intelligence ethics and offered a legal proceduralist conception in opposition to my teleological conception.[1],[2] Collins says that: Just Intelligence Theory treats Intelligence Collection as ancillary to preventing or winning… Read More ›
Month: March 2022
Shahryari on Bloor and the Strong Program, Finn Collin
In “A Tension in the Strong Program: The Relation between the Rational and the Social”, Shahram Shahryari (2021) advances the following thesis: In his Strong Program in the sociology of science, David Bloor blames traditional philosophy of science for adopting… Read More ›
The Dangers of Intellectual Honesty in a World of Lies: A Reply to Lee Basham, Adam Riggio
Lee Basham’s recent piece “An Autopsy of the Origins of HIV/AIDS” (2022) has some astonishingly provocative subject matter, so much as to overcome the force of his overall argument. He makes a true point: investigation into real scientific and medical… Read More ›
Deadnames and Missing Chiralities: A Response to Steve Fuller’s “The Problem of Cishumanism”, Joshua Earle
“Cisgender,” is a term first attributed to German sexologist Volkmar Sigusch and his coining of the term “cis-sexual” in the mid 1990’s (Sigusch 1995). In a 2015 interview (German language, found here) Sigusch explains his reasoning for the coinage, citing… Read More ›
The Fly is Trapped Inside the Bottle: A Semiotic and Epistemological Critique of the Idea of Disability, Chema Sánchez Alcón
Abstract This article is about “disability” understood as a stand-point of view whose high performative power has influenced the identity of people with various disabilities whom we have called “disabled.” From the philosophy of language, using the tools of semiotics,… Read More ›
Young’s P-Value Plot as an Agnogenic Technique, Dan Hicks
In a recent paper in the journal Environmental Epidemiology (Hicks 2022), I examined the statistical-evidential properties of Young’s p-value plot, a method used by the biostatistician S. Stanley Young and various collaborators to critique air pollution epidemiology. I showed that… Read More ›
Digital Clones as the Epitome of Life as a Work of Art, Steve Fuller
The following is a commentary that will be published alongside a digital clone that will be on display during the exhibition, ‘You and Robot—What Is Human?’ that will take place at the Japanese National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation,… Read More ›
More Rational Disagreement, But Some Convergence Too, Keith E. Stanovich
This continuing exchange (2021a) makes it clear that Neil Levy (2021, 2022b) and I agree on many things—but we do tend to emphasize different issues and framings. Much more than he, I tend to emphasize our agreement. And I get… Read More ›
The Quest for Truth in the Twenty-First Century: A Reflection on the Ideal Epistemological Paradigm, Part II, Bonaventure Balla
I. Critical Reassessment of Knowledge Some of the concepts and “facts” that were and are still taught in formal education through schools and universities should be reassessed rigorously because they are intrinsically false. Let us take but a few instances… Read More ›
The Quest for Truth in the Twenty-First Century: A Reflection on the Ideal Epistemological Paradigm, Part I, Bonaventure Balla
We live in an era of new discoveries occurring at a tremendous rate. Such a phenomenon has the propensity to create new and constant challenges likely to revolutionize our way of life. The twenty-first century stands out through its complexity… Read More ›