Volume 11, Issue 5, 1-79, May 2022 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Riggio, Adam. 2022. “Becoming Gestalt: Human and Algorithmic Intelligence—Review of Machine Habitus.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 11 (5): 1-11. ❧ Prusik, Charles A. 2022. “Reply to… Read More ›
Should we be honest about vaccines? That is a serious question. Common sense says that “honesty is the best policy,” and I maintain that topics related to vaccination are not exceptional in this regard. However, some serious and well-intentioned people… Read More ›
The review process for our paper at Social Epistemology has been one of the most productive and engaged in our experience. We find it very rewarding that we can continue the discussion beyond its anonymous review mode, and are grateful… Read More ›
Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies is an easy book for me to review. Why do I make such an audacious statement at the start of this review? Because this book is inextricably linked to the last two books I… Read More ›
As a scholar of both religion and conspiracy theories, it was perhaps inevitable that Nicholas Smith’s (2022) recent article would catch my attention. Happily, I agreed with his conclusions in the main, but I was moved to respond nonetheless, as… Read More ›
Using examples from an ethnographic survey I conducted with manufacturers, researchers and users of so-called intelligent systems, this paper seeks to show that the relationship between humans and machines raises at least three categories of problems. The first one refers… Read More ›
I am not a philosopher. I am a mathematician. I have taught mathematics for more than 30 years, and so, when it comes to knowledge, I am comfortable only where certainty can be obtained, or, if it cannot be obtained,… Read More ›
A two-day symposium on the philosophy of the social sciences, held at the Department of Sociology of the University of Trento, Italy, on May 10-11, 2022. “The Problem of the Persistence of Magical Thinking” May 10, 2022, Trento, Department of… Read More ›
Donald J. Trump, still very much deep in the throes and the long bloom of his psychopathic narcissism, late in life as his full-on flowering may be taking place, has taught me, and continues to teach me, several very important… Read More ›
In a recent article in Social Epistemology, Iaan Reynolds (2021) weights in on the discussion about normative foundations and progress in critical theory. Despite my sympathies for his overall account of critical theory, that takes its cues from early Frankfurt… Read More ›