Author Archives
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The Politics of the Passive Subject, Robert Rosenberger
There are many ways that technologies influence our thinking, behaviors, and perceptions. A lock on a door may prevent us from entering. A pot holder or oven mitt enables us to grab hold of a hot baking dish. The empty… Read More ›
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Towards an Institutional Account on Epistemic Humility and Arrogance, Jaana Parviainen and Anne Koski
Our article (Parviainen, Koski, and Torkkola 2021) has sparked debate about epistemic humility in a crisis when political decision-making requires evidence-based knowledge but scientific experts have no answers. Alena Bleicher’s response (Bleicher 2021), published in the Social Epistemology Review and… Read More ›
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Review of Interrogating the Germanic, Henry Hopwood-Phillips
Few are quite so blessed as the Chinese and Egyptians whose written records extend to the prehistoric Neverland of others. Most are fortunate not to have this employed as an argument against their existence. Germanics, however, are not so lucky. Interrogating… Read More ›
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Philosophy of My Faith, Ljiljana Radenovic
Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed. — John: 20—29 In the following I will do something unusual for a philosopher, or at least unusual for a philosopher of the 21st century. Instead of talking about fideism, hinge… Read More ›
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Obligations of Intellectual Empowerment, Shannon Brick
Epistemic neglect is a kind of epistemic injustice that occurs when educators fail to extend, to their students, “hopeful epistemic trust” (Brick 2020). Hopeful epistemic trust (henceforth, simply ‘hopeful trust’), is trust that is extended not on the basis of… Read More ›
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Salience Machines: A Review of Florian Jaton’s The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating, Emma Stamm
Florian Jaton’s The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating takes up a simple question: where do algorithms come from? Although a great deal of sociotechnical research implies problems of this kind, they are rarely posed so directly. There may be… Read More ›
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SERRC: Volume 10, Issue 8, August 2021
Volume 10, Issue 8, August 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Richmond, Sheldon. 2021. “Open Letter to Markus Gabriel: A Review of The Power of Art and The Meaning of Thought.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (8): 55-62…. Read More ›
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Joseph Agassi Webinars: “The Global Crisis Today” and “Fallibilism in Medicine”
The SERRC enjoys a special relationship with Joseph Agassi having published Academic Agonies and How to Avoid Them: Advice to Young People on Their Way to Academic Careers (2020). And, so, we present the following webinars: “The Global Crisis Today”… Read More ›
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Open Letter to Markus Gabriel: A Review of The Power of Art and The Meaning of Thought, Sheldon Richmond
Dear Professor Gabriel, By coincidence I reviewed the first two books of your trilogy for two different journals, and this one on the meaning of Thought, for yet another journal, without realizing that you had the intent to write the three… Read More ›
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Enhancing Human Existence: Mercer and Trothen’s Religion and the Technological Future, Des Hewitt
Without intending to be distasteful, let alone insensitive, it seems fitting that the publication of Religion and the Technological Future: An Introduction to Biohacking, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism (2021) by Calvin Mercer and Tracy J. Trothen should take place during… Read More ›