Author Archives
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SERRC: Volume 12, Issue 11, 1-100, November 2023
Volume 12, Issue 11, 1-100, November 2023 ❧ Bollen, Caroline. 2023. “Empathy as a Virtue: A Response to Marshall.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 12 (11): 94–100. ❧ Wills, Bernard N. 2023. “Believing in Dawkins: A Review of Steinhart.”… Read More ›
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Empathy as a Virtue: A Response to Marshall, Caroline Bollen
Colin Marshall wrote a detailed reply (2023) to my paper “Towards a Clear and Fair Conceptualization of Empathy” (2023) in which he raised four challenges to inspire a discussion. First, I would like to thank him for his detailed, critical,… Read More ›
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Believing in Dawkins: A Review of Steinhart, Bernard N. Wills
Believing in Dawkins (2020) by Eric Steinhart is a book that answers a question I would not myself have asked. This makes it both intriguing and frustrating. Steinhart wants to build a ‘new spiritual atheism’ based on two elements which,… Read More ›
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Is Conspiracy Theory a Case of Conceptual Domination? M. Giulia Napolitano and Kevin Reuter
How should philosophers define conspiracy theory? In our paper, “What is a Conspiracy Theory?” (2021), we argued that the best definition is an evaluative one—one which characterizes conspiracy theories in terms of epistemic deficiency, appropriately spelled out. We argued for… Read More ›
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Implausible Conspiracy Theories: A Response to Räikkä on Pejorative Definitions, Part II, Kurtis Hagen
Vague evaluative terms, such as “implausible” and “unlikely,” are often used to describe conspiracy theories. In this essay, I argue that such vagueness facilitates equivocations that support unfounded negative generalizations about explanations called “conspiracy theories,” especially when the generalizations are… Read More ›
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“From Divinity to Bovinity” and the Square Route of Orthogonality: A Review of Fuller’s Back to the University’s Future, Des Hewitt
I always seem to be reviewing books for the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective while on holiday. My last review was written while on the beaches of South Goa, India. That book was by Michael Gibson and was about… Read More ›