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Do Collective Epistemic Virtues have to be Scaled-Up Individual Virtues? Mandi Astola
Can groups of people possess epistemic virtues? There has been some attention to this question in recent years in social epistemology and ethics. Interestingly, most defenses and criticisms of collective virtues so far have focused on proving or disproving that… Read More ›
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Response to Franca d’Agostini’s “Alethic Rights: Preliminaries of an Inquiry into the Power of Truth”, Lani Watson
Franca d’Agostini (2021) proposes, explicates, and defends six alethic rights corresponding to six different aspects of the ‘need for truth’. In addition, she outlines the underlying theory of truth that grounds these rights, drawing together key ideas from the diverse… Read More ›
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Are “Epistemic” and “Communicative” Models of Silencing in Conflict? Reply to McGlynn, Leo Townsend and Dina Lupin Townsend
We are very grateful to Aidan McGlynn for his thoughtful and generous reply to our paper, “Epistemic Injustice and Indigenous Peoples in the Inter-American Human Rights System” (D.L. Townsend and L. Townsend 2021). He is right that our primary interest… Read More ›
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Covid Information Struggles, Brian Martin
Some viewpoints about COVID-19 are being censored, especially by tech companies such as Facebook and Google. Some of those being censored are calling foul. To understand more about struggles over information about Covid, it is useful to look at tactics… Read More ›
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SERRC: Notices
Guy Axtell, a member of the SERRC and co-editor of Epistemic Paternalism: Conceptions, Justifications and Implications (Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society), has a paper “Cultivating Doxastic Responsibility: Ameliorative Epistemological Projects and the Ethics of Knowledge” available in a special… Read More ›
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Conceptualizing Disinformation, Tim Hayward
The term disinformation is used extensively today in public discussions and also in a growing academic literature, but it has been subject to relatively little conceptual analysis—although Søe (2018) helpfully reviews some philosophical treatments. More generally, the term’s range of… Read More ›
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The Missing Dimension—Intelligence and Social Epistemology: A Reply to Miller’s “Rethinking the Just Intelligence Theory of National Security Intelligence Collection and Analysis”, Giangiuseppe Pili
In the introduction to The Missing Dimension (1984), Christopher Andrew and David Dilks claim: “Academic historians have frequently tended either to ignore intelligence altogether or to treat it as of little importance” (1). As Seumas Miller observes in “Rethinking the… Read More ›
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SERRC: Volume 10, Issue 6, June 2021
Volume 10, Issue 6, June 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Lynch, William T. 2021. “Zombie Epistemology: Or, I Ain’t Gonna Work on Zoltan’s Farm, Either.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (6): 1-19. Part I, https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-5Ur; Part II,… Read More ›
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The Deadly Consequences of Wish Fulfilment: Anna Elisabetta Galeotti’s Political Self-Deception, Des Hewitt
At the time of what was perhaps distastefully called ‘Gulf War 2’ (sounding much like a video game sequel) in 2002, a charge of ‘excessive hubris’ was levelled against Tony Blair, then Prime Minister of the UK, by Dr David… Read More ›
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‘Epistemic Injustice’ in Aid Sector and Agenda for Researching National Development Experts, Palash Kamruzzaman
Susanne Koch, reflecting on her experience of working in the development aid sector, asserts that ‘experts from within the aid-receiving countries are subject to discriminatory credibility judgment based on their identity and that this seems to happen not incidentally but… Read More ›