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Epistemic Elitism, Scepticism, and Diachronic Epistemic Reasons: A Rejoinder to Ranalli on Worldview Disagreement, Kirk Lougheed
Introduction I’m honoured by Chris Ranalli’s (2020) thought-provoking response to my recent article, “The Epistemic Benefits of Worldview Disagreement” (2020a), which is an expansion of ideas found in my book, The Epistemic Benefits of Disagreement (2020b). I’m also grateful to… Read More ›
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On Skipper’s Humility Heuristic, Marco Meyer
In ‘The Humility Heuristic Or: People Worth Trusting Admit to What They Don’t Know,’ Mattias Skipper defends a heuristic for identifying trustworthy people. In slogan form, the Humility Heuristic says that people worth trusting admit to what they don’t know…. Read More ›
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Rationally Maintaining a Worldview, Chris Ranalli
Most attention in the epistemology of disagreement has centered around epistemic peer disagreement. Epistemic peer disagreements are disagreements between epistemic peers over a proposition, p, where epistemic peers are people who are roughly equal to each other in terms of… Read More ›
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Science and Socialism in the Time of Coronavirus, William T. Lynch
The great civilizational crisis of 2020 has shown the bankruptcy and impotence of the last half-century of neoliberal economics and politics in the face of challenges it is not well equipped to face. Trade wars, a viral pandemic, rising inequality,… Read More ›
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On Gunn on Boundary Work, Finn Collin
In “Reflections on Boundary Work on Social Epistemology”, Hanna Kiri Gunn offers an analysis of the pros and cons of academic boundary work. I argue that this is an aspect of a larger issue, i.e. specifying the most productive organizational… Read More ›
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The Epistemic Challenge of Religious Disagreement: Responding to Matheson, John Pittard
I am grateful for Jonathan Matheson’s recent review (Matheson 2020) of my book, Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment (Pittard 2019). Matheson’s excellent summary reflects a very careful reading, and his critical commentary offers important objections that deserve reflection and response…. Read More ›
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Nonculpably Ignorant Meat Eaters & Epistemically Unjust Meat Producers, Cheryl Abbate
In the United States (U.S.) alone, nearly 10 billion farmed animals are raised and killed for food each year, and approximately 99% of these animals are raised in factory farms, where they are mutilated without anesthetic, confined to cramped and… Read More ›
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The Need for an Imaginative Politics, Mats Rosengren
Gothenburg, Sweden, May through July 2020—An Introduction of Sorts[1]. Ever since the ‘birth of politics’ in ancient Greece, where philosophers and rhetoricians competed to educate the young, the importance of the social imaginary for the founding of cities and creating… Read More ›
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Collective Belief Explicated: Replies to Wallace and Smith, Michael G. Bruno and J.M. Fritzman
We are grateful to Rodrick Wallace (2020) and Nicholas D. Smith (2020) for their questions and comments on Bruno and Fritzman (2020). Wallace’s comments largely complement our article. Agreeing with Atlan and Cohen (1998), he defines cognition as the choice… Read More ›
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Coalitions of Trust: Using Epistemic Teams to Identify Experts, Jamie Carlin Watson
I appreciate the opportunity to continue this conversation on how non-experts might identify and, thereby, come to trust experts. While so much of contemporary philosophical discussion might be called destructive—attempts to defeat an “opponent’s” claims through counterexample—this forum has been… Read More ›