Abstract Does it make sense to shoot a rifle at a plane moving away in the sky? Moreover, does this action make sense when the plane is supported by the tanks, warships and aircraft carriers of a powerful regular army?… Read More ›
Month: June 2023
Scientism and Sentiments about Progress in Science and Academic Philosophy, Part II, Moti Mizrahi
3. Sentiment Analysis For those who are concerned about selection bias in the results of the 2009 and 2020 PhilPapers Surveys, there is another way to gauge the disagreement about progress in academic philosophy among academic philosophers, namely, to study… Read More ›
Scientism and Sentiments about Progress in Science and Academic Philosophy, Part I, Moti Mizrahi
Abstract Mizrahi (2017a) advances an argument in support of Weak Scientism, which is the view that scientific knowledge is the best (but not the only) knowledge we have, according to which Weak Scientism follows from the premises that scientific knowledge… Read More ›
The Epistemology of Socializing: A Review of Kathryn Waddington’s Gossip, Organization and Work, Karen Adkins
Academics are fond of the practice of gossip, as campus novels make plain. But the scholarship on gossip, while dispersed across many fields, often seems irrelevant to folks who work in social epistemology. Because it is so often defined in… Read More ›
Issues about the Paradox of Demonstrating Acts of Intellectual Humility, Noel L. Clemente
Brian Robinson’s (2023) response to my paper (Clemente 2023) raised a number of important issues regarding what I described as the modeling paradox of teaching intellectual humility (IH). He questioned two crucial concepts—what I take IH to be, and what… Read More ›
Defending Wokeness: A Response to Davidson, J. Spencer Atkins
Lacey J. Davidson (2023) raises several insightful objections to the group partiality account of wokeness. The paper aims to move the discussion forward by either responding to or developing Davidson’s objections. My goal is not to show that the partiality… Read More ›
Public Sentiment and Its Powers, Part II, Mariam Thalos
Walter Lippman, an American critic of democracy, wrote: What then are the true boundaries of the people’s power? …[F]or a rough beginning let us say that the people are able to give and withhold their consent to be governed —… Read More ›
Public Sentiment and Its Powers, Part I, Mariam Thalos
“Public opinion doesn’t exist.” — Pierre Bourdieu 1972/79. This essay aims at rethinking two important conceptions for use in social and political science: (1) Public sentiment, to be used interchangeably, as is the common practice, with public opinion, and; (2)… Read More ›