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• Matters of Social Epistemology: A Comment on Emma Stamm’s Review, Florian Jaton

  By SERRC on January 18, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Ironically, as an academician, there are countless reasons why I don’t successfully engage in academic book reading. Undergraduate classes to prepare and teach, field notebooks to transcribe in NVivo software, languishing joint publication projects, obscure workshops, and, in my case… Read More ›

• Testimonial Smothering’s Non-Epistemic Motives: A Reply to Goetze and Lee, Eric Bayruns García

  By SERRC on January 14, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  In her article, J. Y. Lee (2021a) presented anticipatory epistemic injustice. A subject suffers anticipatory epistemic injustice if she suppresses her testimony because she anticipates that she will face negative consequences due to her membership in a non-dominant identity group… Read More ›

• The Bias that Unites Us: A Reply to Keith Stanovich, Neil Levy

  By SERRC on January 12, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Keith Stanovich (Stanovich 2021a) accuses me of misreading his book at multiple points. I think he’s misread my review, so I guess we’re even. Perhaps neither of us were as clear as we should have been. His main point is… Read More ›

• Privacy Norms and Resistances Between the Performative, the Habitual and the Periperformative, Garfield Benjamin

  By SERRC on January 10, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  I very much appreciate Ari Ezra Waldman’s thoughtful reply (2021a) to my article “From Protecting to Performing Privacy” (2020) for expanding the discussion and offering challenges to push the concept(s) further. He introduces the role of habit within the ways… Read More ›

• Why Didn’t I Pick a Fight About X?: An Inquisitive Response to Harris, Alexander William Morales

  By SERRC on January 4, 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  My review of Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science commended Randy Allen Harris for not shying away from disciplinary controversy. Particularly, I complimented his decision to organize Case Studies (2018) and Issues and Methods (2020) around the numerous conceptual debates… Read More ›

• SERRC: Most Viewed Monthly Posts of 2021

  By SERRC on January 2, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  The list below provides the articles, replies, and reviews most viewed on the month of their initial posting in 2021. We invite you to read a sample of the exceptional range of contributions that the SERRC receives. We hope you… Read More ›

• SERRC: Volume 10, Issue 12, December 2021

  By SERRC on January 1, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Volume 10, Issue 12, 1-79, December 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Levy, Neil. 2021. “Predictably Rational: A Further Response to Grundmann.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (12): 75-79. ❧ Sassower, Raphael. 2021. “It’s the Economy, Stupid: Comment… Read More ›

• Predictably Rational: A Further Response to Grundmann, Neil Levy

  By SERRC on December 29, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  There’s a certain pleasure in accounts that debunk some of our most highly prized traits, especially when they’re seen to stem from science. Scientists and those who see themselves as scientifically minded often tell us that science shows that free… Read More ›

• It’s the Economy, Stupid: Comment on Fuller’s “Is the Metaverse the New Metaphysics,” Raphael Sassower

  By SERRC on December 27, 2021 • ( 4 )

  

  Though the question posed by Steve Fuller’s latest essay (2021) appears to be metaphysically minded, it turns out to be much more aligned with either Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm shifts or James Carville’s famous quip about the economy.[1] After discussing Facebook’s… Read More ›

• Is the Metaverse the New Metaphysics? Steve Fuller

  By SERRC on December 24, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Editor’s Note: Beginning in 2012, I asked Steve Fuller to provide a Christmas greeting—or, end-of-year reflection. As the SERRC grew, I invited contributions from our members. In this tradition, and at this time of resolutions, Steve asks us to consider… Read More ›