What follows is the Introduction to the Turkish translation of Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game, originally published in English by Anthem Press in 2018. The Turkish translation will be appearing in early 2023 through FOL Publishing House in Ankara…. Read More ›
Month: November 2022
Re-Visiting Vygotsky’s Concept of Vrashchivanie (Ingrowing): A Focus on Metaphors, Michael Cole and Natalia Gajdamaschko
Prefatory Comments Dear Colleagues: Below you will find an essay that we have been working on for some time. Our initial plan was to engage our Russian colleagues in a discussion of a central concept by one of their most… Read More ›
Love in a Cold Climate, Des Hewitt
Sociology is often defined as the study of the relationship between the individual, the economy and the state, and the institutions and cultures that arise as a consequence of this relationship.[1] What holds this relationship together is usually called the… Read More ›
Epistemic Harm, Social Consequences: A Reply to Torcello on Climate Change Disinformation, Francesca Pongiglione and Carlo Martini
The temperatures registered in the summer of 2022 were among the highest on record in Europe, central and eastern China, and North America (ECMWF, ERA5 2022). The summer of 2022 is, however, unlikely to be an exceptional one. Similar heat… Read More ›
Comments on Hiller and Randall’s “Epistemic Structure in Non-Summative Social Knowledge”, Jesper Kallestrup
In “Epistemic Structure in Non-Summative Social Knowledge” (2022), Avram Hiller and R. Wolfe Randall argue that not only is not all group knowledge summative, the knowledge that groups have also fails to supervene on mental states of their members. That… Read More ›
On the Worth of Trying, Adam Riggio
The core of the problem of whether institutions of scientific knowledge can hold onto their legitimacy is a matter of trust. When I take a COVID vaccine, I do so trusting that the institutions and organizations involved in developing and… Read More ›
The Inner Life of Objects: A Critical Review of Architecture and Objects, Sheldon Richmond
To be is to be an object. Objects are not to be identified with any particular entity, such as material things, spiritual things, abstractions, qualities, qualia, essences. Nor can objects be completely defined by a finite set of disjunctive statements…. Read More ›
Substantive Disagreement in the Le Monde Debate and Beyond: Replies to Duetz and Dentith, Basham, and Hewitt, Scott Hill
I agree with much of what J.C.M. Duetz and M R.X. Dentith have to say in “Reconciling Conceptual Confusions in the Le Monde Debate on Conspiracy Theories” (2022). They have given me a lot to think about and have caused… Read More ›
“Humanity 8.0”: A Podcast
Announcing Humanity 8.0: A Podcast Host: Dr. Ahmed Bouzid, CEO, Witlingo To listen to the first eight episodes of “Humanity 8.0”, please go here: ❧ The Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Audio Only ❧ The Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Video If you would like… Read More ›