Author Archives

• Humanities Center’s Virtual Book Launch: William T. Lynch

  By SERRC on April 8, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The following YouTube video—”Humanities Center’s Virtual Book Launch: William T. Lynch”—recorded on April 1 (2021) at Wayne State University—offers an engaging discussion—initially among Bill Lynch and Steve Fuller—about the issues and arguments raised in Lynch’s Minority Report: Dissent and Diversity… Read More ›

• From Group Scaffolded Individual Self-Trust to Group Self-Trust, Karen Jones

  By SERRC on April 5, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Nadja El Kassar (2021) argues that collective intellectual self-trust can both block the negative effects of epistemic injustice and support active resistance to it. Collectives enable those who might otherwise suffer the corrosive effects of having their epistemic capacities routinely… Read More ›

• SERRC, Volume 10, Issue 3, March 2021

  By SERRC on March 31, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Volume 10, Issue 3, March 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Schwengerer, Lukas. 2021. “Revisiting Online Intellectual Virtues.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (3): 38-45. ❧ Catala, Amandine. 2021. “Echo Chambers, Epistemic Injustice, and Ignorance.” Social Epistemology Review… Read More ›

• Minority Report, William T. Lynch, Virtual Book Launch

  By SERRC on March 29, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Virtual Book Launch & Presentation Thursday, April 1, 2021, 1 p.m. EST Join us on Zoom at: https://wayne-edu.zoom.us/j/94502303155?pwd=QXlUZlJxLy9XeEhkemg3MkFVVlJSdz09 Zoom Meeting ID: 945 – 0230 – 3155 Password: 076775 Join author William T. Lynch and moderator Steve Fuller for a conversation… Read More ›

• Revisiting Online Intellectual Virtues, Lukas Schwengerer

  By SERRC on March 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Paul Smart’s and Robert Clowes’s “Intellectual Virtues and Internet-Extended Knowledge” (2021) in response to my “Online Intellectual Virtues and the Extended Mind”  (2020) raises some important questions for the proposal of intellectual virtues in an online environment. These questions aim… Read More ›

• Echo Chambers, Epistemic Injustice, and Ignorance, Amandine Catala

  By SERRC on March 19, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The connections between echo chambers, on the one hand, and epistemic injustice and ignorance, on the other hand, are important to identify and theorize, and have indeed started to draw the attention of philosophers working on these issues (Nguyen 2020;… Read More ›

• Objectification and the Labour of the Negative in the Origin of Human Thinking: A Response to Chris Drain, Kyrill Potapov

  By SERRC on March 12, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  After reading the stimulating exchange between Chris Drain (2020; 2021) and Siyaves Azeri (2020; 2021), I wanted to reply to Drain from a slightly different angle. Drain’s latest response (2021) takes aim at what Vygotsky calls his general genetic law… Read More ›

• How to Do Things with Knowledge, Massimiliano Simons

  By SERRC on March 9, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  In his fascinating article Pablo Schyfter (2020) draws our attention to an often neglected topic in social epistemology and sociology of knowledge: not how knowledge is produced, but how it is used. The article mobilizes empirical research on synthetic biology… Read More ›

• Commands and Collaboration in the Origin of Human Thinking: A Response to Azeri’s “On Reality of Thinking,” Chris Drain

  By SERRC on March 5, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Siyaves Azeri’s “On Reality of Thinking” (2021) is yet another informative contribution to the philosophical deployment of Vygotskian psychology. I’m grateful to Mr. Azeri for taking the time to reply to my comments and for the opportunity to continue this… Read More ›

• In and Beyond the Era of COVID-19

  By SERRC on March 2, 2021 • ( 0 )

  In this forum, members and associates of the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective examine significant issues and contestations arising in and beyond the era of COVID-19. A focal point arises as we consider whether or not to think of… Read More ›