Author Archives
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Response to Hill: Conspiracy Theorizing, Ordinary Usage and Integrity, Lee Basham
Scott Hill’s most recent defense of the Le Monde declaration against conspiracy theory is welcome.[1] It’s an enjoyable and thoughtful piece with a high spirit to it. He also shares a disturbing revelation. Most important, it represents another opportunity to… Read More ›
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Why Does Latour the Postmodern Critic Still Matter? Raphael Sassower
It was sometime in the mid-1990s that I first met Bruno Latour in person. It was the annual 4S meeting, either in Seattle or Portland. It was a smallish room that held about thirty people. In walks a tall and… Read More ›
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SERRC: Volume 11, Issue 11, November 2022
Volume 11, Issue 11, 1-71, November 2022 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Gonnerman, Chad and Stephen Crowley. 2022. “Can We Tell Whether Philosophy is Special?” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 11 (11): 1-11. ❧ Gopal, William and Federica Russo…. Read More ›
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Introduction to the Turkish Translation of Post-Truth: Knowledge As A Power Game, Steve Fuller
What follows is the Introduction to the Turkish translation of Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game, originally published in English by Anthem Press in 2018. The Turkish translation will be appearing in early 2023 through FOL Publishing House in Ankara…. Read More ›
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Re-Visiting Vygotsky’s Concept of Vrashchivanie (Ingrowing): A Focus on Metaphors, Michael Cole and Natalia Gajdamaschko
Prefatory Comments Dear Colleagues: Below you will find an essay that we have been working on for some time. Our initial plan was to engage our Russian colleagues in a discussion of a central concept by one of their most… Read More ›
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Love in a Cold Climate, Des Hewitt
Sociology is often defined as the study of the relationship between the individual, the economy and the state, and the institutions and cultures that arise as a consequence of this relationship.[1] What holds this relationship together is usually called the… Read More ›
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Epistemic Harm, Social Consequences: A Reply to Torcello on Climate Change Disinformation, Francesca Pongiglione and Carlo Martini
The temperatures registered in the summer of 2022 were among the highest on record in Europe, central and eastern China, and North America (ECMWF, ERA5 2022). The summer of 2022 is, however, unlikely to be an exceptional one. Similar heat… Read More ›
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Comments on Hiller and Randall’s “Epistemic Structure in Non-Summative Social Knowledge”, Jesper Kallestrup
In “Epistemic Structure in Non-Summative Social Knowledge” (2022), Avram Hiller and R. Wolfe Randall argue that not only is not all group knowledge summative, the knowledge that groups have also fails to supervene on mental states of their members. That… Read More ›
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On the Worth of Trying, Adam Riggio
The core of the problem of whether institutions of scientific knowledge can hold onto their legitimacy is a matter of trust. When I take a COVID vaccine, I do so trusting that the institutions and organizations involved in developing and… Read More ›
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The Inner Life of Objects: A Critical Review of Architecture and Objects, Sheldon Richmond
To be is to be an object. Objects are not to be identified with any particular entity, such as material things, spiritual things, abstractions, qualities, qualia, essences. Nor can objects be completely defined by a finite set of disjunctive statements…. Read More ›