Some terms are harmful. Take slurs. The use of slurs can promote and sustain connections between concepts and stereotypes that harm innocent people. A slur for African Americans, for example, may be harmful even if that slur does not license… Read More ›
Month: September 2023
Why We Should Stop Talking about Generalism and Particularism: Moving the Debate on Conspiracy Theories Forward, Maarten Boudry and M. Giulia Napolitano
It is highly unusual for philosophers to agree about anything. And yet, philosophers of conspiracy theories seem to have achieved this remarkable feat. For more than a decade, a campaign has been waged against a position called “generalism”. Originally coined… Read More ›
Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Season 3, Episodes 1-6
Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Season 3, Episodes 1-6. We open Season 3 of Humanity 8.0 with a 6-episode drop of 3 interviews with four insightful people: • Anne Alombert, Associate Professor in contemporary French philosophy at the University of Paris 8;… Read More ›
Introduction to the Farsi Translation of Kuhn vs. Popper, Steve Fuller
2023 marks the twentieth anniversary of my book, Kuhn vs. Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science. This introduction to the Farsi translation provides an excellent opportunity to reflect on the significance of their disagreement, considering how the intellectual… Read More ›
Reply to Bollen’s “Towards a Clear and Fair Conceptualization of Empathy”, Colin Marshall
Caroline Bollen’s “Towards a Clear and Fair Conceptualization of Empathy” (2023) raises important questions about whether current academic approaches to empathy wrongly imply that neurodivergent people (especially those with autism) are morally inferior. Bollen offers a novel understanding of empathy… Read More ›
What’s in the Darkness? Understanding Fringe and Pseudoscience, Adam Tamas Tuboly
The “question of science” consists of many tiny, though rather complicated questions; but defining science, or at least the continuous attempts to characterize science in a unique way, has always had a peculiar socio-cultural implication. The question of what science… Read More ›
Are We Wiser Together? A Review of Cizek and Uricchio’s Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice, Tertia Gillett
Acts of collective creation are varied and plentiful, but they are commonly overlooked and rendered invisible in a contemporary culture invested in sole authorship and individual ownership. Katerina Cizek and William Uricchio draw our attention to this phenomenon by reminding… Read More ›
SERRC: Volume 12, Issue 8, 1-65, August 2023
Volume 12, Issue 8, 1-65, August 2023 ❧ Hewitt, Des. 2023. “Requiem for Expertise.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 12 (8): 1-9. ❧ Walker, Jesse. 2023. “Defining ‘Conspiracy Theory’: A Reply to Lee Basham.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply… Read More ›