Author Archives
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Which Reality? Whose Truth? A Review Kathleen Stock’s Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism, Adam Briggle
In Material Girls, the philosopher Kathleen Stock argues that the categories WOMAN and MAN (capitalized by her to indicate that these are concepts and not the entities they refer to) are not altered by inner feelings of gender identity. Just saying… Read More ›
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(What) Are Stereotyping and Discrimination? (What) Do We Want Them to Be? Alex Madva
Erin Beeghly’s “Stereotyping as Discrimination” is—characteristically—clear, thorough, and persuasive, rich with incisive arguments and thought-provoking case studies. In defending the view that stereotyping often constitutes discrimination, she makes a powerful case that, “Living ethically means cultivating a certain kind of… Read More ›
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But There Is No Here Any Longer Anywhere: Review of Phillips and Milner’s You Are Here, Adam Riggio
There is arguably no issue of greater urgency than the subject matter of You Are Here: the epistemic breakdown of public life. This is an ongoing crisis snowballing far faster than the sluggish pace of academic publishing. Whitney Phillips and… Read More ›
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Epistemic Repair: A Reply to Page, Seunghyun Song
I am grateful to Jennifer Page, who wrote a generous and incisive reply to my paper “Denial of Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery and Responsibility for Epistemic Amends” (2021a). In this paper, I argue that publicly denying the “comfort women” issue—a… Read More ›
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Philosophical Sentiments Toward Scientism: A Reply to Bryant, Moti Mizrahi
Abstract In a reply to Mizrahi (2019), Bryant (2020) raises several methodological concerns regarding my attempt to test hypotheses about the observation that academic philosophers tend to find “scientism” threatening empirically using quantitative, corpus-based methods. Chief among her methodological concerns… Read More ›
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Coloniality, Global Power Asymmetry and Epistemic Liberation, Venkatesh Vaditya
Colonialism, as a political structure and form of domination, has long ended in Africa and other southern countries. However, the power asymmetry in the world political economy persists as colonialism’s historical legacy. The structural domination of colonialism in the postcolonial… Read More ›
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Alethic or Epistemic? A Reply to Lani Watson, Franca d’Agostini
Lani Watson’s “Response” (2021a) to my article (2021) on alethic rights (AR), the rights related to truth, provides an extremely helpful contribution to AR theory. The exchange with Watson is particularly interesting as she has extensively elaborated on a similar… Read More ›
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SERRC: Volume 10, Issue 10, October 2021
Volume 10, Issue 10, October 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Page, Jennifer. 2021. “De-Moralizing Breastfeeding.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (10): 59-67. ❧ Miller, Seumas. 2021. “Reply to Giangiuseppe Pili’s ‘The Missing Dimension—Intelligence and Social Epistemology’.” Social… Read More ›
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De-Moralizing Breastfeeding, Jennifer Page
“Breast is Best.” In places where clean water access is a problem, it is well-established that feeding an infant with human milk rather than formula-feeding saves lives. Yet even in countries that don’t struggle with clean water access, like Switzerland,… Read More ›
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Reply to Giangiuseppe Pili’s “The Missing Dimension—Intelligence and Social Epistemology,” Seumas Miller
Giangiuseppe Pili (2021) has written an interesting response to my article, “Rethinking the Just Intelligence Theory of National Security Intelligence Collection and Analysis: The Principles of Discrimination, Necessity, Proportionality and Reciprocity” (Miller 2021). I agree with much of what Pili… Read More ›