Volume 11, Issue 12, 1-81, December 2022 Podcast Knowledge for Breakfast, Episode 3: “Faith, Knowing, and Believing.” Guest: Sister Mary Magdalene; Hosts: Fabien Medvecky and Michiel van Oudheusden. Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Sassower, Raphael 2022. “Why Does Latour the… Read More ›
Month: December 2022
On the Rationality of Word-Taking, Part II, Juha Räikkä
Testimony and Morality Let us now turn to the second objection. According to it, it can be rational to take another person’s word and believe her even in cases where one does not vindicate one’s view about the speaker’s trustworthiness… Read More ›
On the Rationality of Word-Taking, Part I, Juha Räikkä
Abstract It is rather commonly assumed that “trustworthiness” is a trait among others and can be appraised with evidence, although trust may go beyond evidence in some cases. It is also rather commonly assumed that a sort of estimation of… Read More ›
Apocalypse Now? Yes, but Keep Calm and Carry On, Steve Fuller
Editor’s Note: Beginning in 2012, I asked Steve Fuller to provide a Christmas greeting—or, end-of-year reflection. As the SERRC grew, I invited contributions from our members. In this tradition, and at this time of resolutions, Steve asks us to consider… Read More ›
Appreciating and Elaborating on Raphael Sassower’s Review of Mad Hazard, Stephen Turner
I appreciate Raphael Sassower’s (2022) efforts to make sense of my memoir—Mad Hazard: A Life in Social Theory (2022a)—and hope in this response to make a little more sense out of the issues he raises. He does a good job… Read More ›
Conspiracy Theory, Personal Epistemic Crisis and Epstein: Riggio on Trying, Lee Basham
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.[1]—Antonio Gramsci Society is a prison. Some of us are prisoners but most of us are guards.[2]—Robert Zimmerman … [please read below… Read More ›
Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Episodes 11 and 12
Humanity 8.0, Episodes 11 and 12 are a conversation between Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the Transhumanist Party and author of the children’s book Death is Wrong, and Dr. Ahmed Bouzid, host of the podcast. ❧ Episode 11: https://youtu.be/kykZEdlQ2A8 ❧… Read More ›
Knowledge for Breakfast, Episode 3: “Faith, Knowing, and Believing”
In this episode of “Knowledge for Breakfast”, we discuss the relationship between faith, knowing and believing. What role does knowledge play in faith. Can we consider religious experiences and beliefs knowledge? What we consider in this episode is, more than… Read More ›
A Response to Sheldon Richmond’s Review of Architecture and Objects, Graham Harman
Here I would like to respond briefly to Sheldon Richmond’s “The Inner Life of Objects,” which describes itself as a critical review of my book Architecture and Objects (Richmond 2022; Harman 2022). His review is by no means bitingly critical,… Read More ›
Children and Marginalization: Reflections on Arlene Lo’s “Hermeneutical Injustice and Child Victims of Abuse”, Gary Bartlett
1. Introduction I find myself in almost complete agreement with Arlene Lo (2022). Child abuse victims surely suffer hermeneutical injustice if they are denied the concepts necessary to understand their experience, and that injustice is immensely harmful. In this reply… Read More ›