Un fantôme ne meurt jamais, il reste toujours à venir et à revenir. Responsabilité infinie, donc, pas de repos possible pour une quelconque bonne conscience. —Jacques Derrida, Spectres de Marx, 19. The disposal and meaning of human remains, or “necro-waste,”… Read More ›
Month: October 2023
Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Season 3, Episodes 13-18
Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Season 3, Episodes 13-18. Our third and final drop for Season 3 of Humanity 8.0 is now live. The episodes feature the following: • Professor Lee Basham, the University of Texas-Pan American; • Professor Ljiljana Radenović, University… Read More ›
What Does Theology about Science and Religion Accomplish? A Reply to Zacky and Moniruzzaman, Taner Edis
Mohamed Fouz Mohamed Zacky and Md Moniruzzaman (2023) describe three Muslim responses to modern knowledge: “Islamization of Knowledge (IOK), Radical Reform (RR), and Maqasid Methodology (MM).” Their work adds to our understanding of the variety contained in Islam. For those… Read More ›
The Counterfactual Paths and Their Convergence in the History of Physics, Science, and the World, Slobodan Perović
In her groundbreaking paper, Léna Soler (2023) explores a counterfactual historical scenario in which an interpretation of quantum physics, similar to that of David Bohm (1952), is taught everywhere at the university level, following its victory over what we now… Read More ›
The Severity of the Information Gap Problem for Epistocracy: On Gibbons’s Reply, María Pía Méndez
Adam Gibbons (2022) holds, in response to my recent paper on epistocracy (Méndez 2022), that the severity of what I identify as a very relevant epistemic problem for epistocracy is overstated. What I call the Information Gap Problem refers to… Read More ›
A Reply to Hauswald’s “‘That’s Just a Conspiracy Theory’”, David Coady
I agree with much that Rico Hauswald (2023) says in “‘That’s Just a Conspiracy Theory’: Relevant Alternatives, Dismissive Conversational Exercitives, and the Problem of Premature Conclusions.” I agree with him that the term “conspiracy theory” standardly acts in ordinary language… Read More ›
Should We be Generalists about Official Stories? A Response to Hayward, Will Mittendorf
In “The Applied Epistemology of Official Stories” (2023), Tim Hayward offers a thorough and convincing rejection of Neil Levy’s claim that we ought to defer to official stories from relevant epistemic authorities. In this response, I take no issue with… Read More ›
Philosophy is Not Politics: A Review of Susan Neiman’s Left is not Woke, Sharon Rider
As the pithy title of this book suggests, it was written by someone with a mission. Susan Neiman’s central aim is to challenge the kind of back-of-the-envelope relativism that she argues is a consequence of too much high theory and… Read More ›
On the Non-Knowing of Animal Suffering: Against Gatekeeping Epistemic Injustice, Paul-Mikhail Catapang Podosky
The contemporary world is replete with great moral problems. This is compounded by the fact that several of these problems are ideologically hidden from public understanding. And this is no accident. The world is geared in such a way that… Read More ›
Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Season 3, Episodes 7-12
Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Season 3, Episodes 7-12. Our second Season 3 drop of Humanity 8.0 is now live. The episodes feature the following: • Professor David McNeill, Georgetown Law Center; • Karina Montoya, The Open Markets Institute, and; • Professor… Read More ›