A two-day symposium on the philosophy of the social sciences, to be held at the Department of Sociology of the University of Trento, Italy, on May 10-11. On Tuesday, May 10 (3-5 pm, Italian time), Joseph Agassi and Ian Jarvie… Read More ›
Month: May 2022
Review of Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making and Knowing, Mark D. West
What do we mean when we talk about models? We mean simulacra, miniatures, objects which serve as physical abstractions in order to make a point or test a theory. More broadly speaking, models are mental or physical objects that belong… Read More ›
Reply to Iaan Reynolds: “The Dialectic of Progress and the Cultivation of Resistance in Critical Social Theory,” Charles A. Prusik
Among the many concepts that have fallen under suspicion in critical theory, the concept of progress may be the most contested. In “The Dialectic of Progress and the Cultivation of Resistance in Critical Social Theory,” Iaan Reynolds focuses on the… Read More ›
Becoming Gestalt: Human and Algorithmic Intelligence—Review of Machine Habitus, Adam Riggio
Books like Massimo Airoldi’s Machine Habitus contain radical, transformative ideas in accessible, professional prose. Airoldi’s ideas are radical because he advocates a shift of fundamental categories in what sociologists must consider the objects of their analysis in understanding modern society…. Read More ›
SERRC: Volume 11, Issue 4, April 2022
Volume 11, Issue 4, 1-96, April 2022 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Bouzid, Ahmed. 2022. “A Reply to Steve Fuller’s ‘Eurasianism as the Deep History of Russia’s Discontent’.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 11 (4): 1-4. ❧ Gilks, Mark…. Read More ›