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• Honesty is the Best Policy: Why the Science of Vaccination Matters, Des Hewitt

  By SERRC on June 30, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  In recent weeks and months SERRC has published a number of contentious articles and replies which focus on vaccines: vaccines which combat COVID-19. Making the latter statement so definitively makes me suspect my writing will be taken by readers as… Read More ›

• The Weak-Willed Heart of Transhumanism’s Dreaming, Adam Riggio

  By SERRC on June 28, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  What is most interesting about Calamity Theory is the irony at its heart. Using the problematics of the existentialist tradition to critique Nick Bostrom’s existential risk project is fruitful. Despite the coincidence of word choice, existentialist philosophy has so little… Read More ›

• The Salvation of the State is in Watchfulness of the Citizens: A Reply to Ahmed Bouzid, Lee Basham

  By SERRC on June 24, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ― Eric Blair[1] In this brief note we examine an interesting if perhaps unusual reply to Kurtis Hagen’s, “Vaccination and Intellectual Honesty: Reflections on a Theme in Recent… Read More ›

• A Reply to Fulvio Mazzocchi’s “Diving Deeper into the Concept of ‘Cultural Heritage’ and Its Relationship with Epistemic Diversity,” Aleksandra Łukaszewicz

  By SERRC on June 20, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Fulvio Mazzocchi’s article “Diving Deeper into the Concept of ‘Cultural Heritage’ and its Relationship with Epistemic Diversity” (2022) presents a very well-weighted and interesting proposal on cultural heritage. Here, I want to praise the way Mazzocchi approaches tangible and intangible… Read More ›

• What is to be Done with Eurasianism—or the ‘Promised Heartland’—as Someone Who is a Real Eurasian? Andrey Ivanov

  By SERRC on June 16, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  The problem with ‘Eurasianism’ as an idea in Russia (Fuller 2022) boils down both to the words ‘Euro’ and ‘Asia’ and to their ordering. Do Russians actually identify themselves as a part of Europe or Asia? Do they have any… Read More ›

• The Strong Program and Asymmetrical Explanation of the History of Science: A Reply to Collin, Shahram Shahryari

  By SERRC on June 14, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  In the article “A Tension in the Strong Program: The Relation between the Rational and the Social,” I stated that David Bloor, citing the principle of symmetry, expresses that rational and irrational beliefs must be explained in the same way,… Read More ›

• The “New Conspiracism” is Not: Muirhead and Rosenblum’s A Lot of People are Saying, Lee Basham

  By SERRC on June 10, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  “It’s time to confront conspiracy theories? We’ve always been out of time for that.” — Otto Blaast In Social Epistemology we find an essay by philosopher Steve Clarke, “Is There a New Conspiracism?”[1] He argues Muirhead and Rosenblum’s A Lot of… Read More ›

• The Academy: From Divinity to Bovinity, Steve Fuller

  By SERRC on June 8, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  What follows is the Salutatory Address delivered by Steve Fuller to the 1979 graduating class of Columbia College, Columbia University, New York. US college graduating ceremonies are traditionally opened by the person who graduated no. 2 in his or her… Read More ›

• Announcement: “Integrating Intelligence Theory with Philosophy”

  By SERRC on June 7, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  The Taylor & Francis journal Intelligence and National Security has published a special issue “Integrating Intelligence Theory with Philosophy” that may be of interest to SERRC readers. The issue contains work by Giangiuseppe Pili. Professor Pili has published in the… Read More ›

• Science, Trust and Justice: More Lessons from the Pandemic, Ahmet Faik Kurtulmuş

  By SERRC on June 6, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Take a question like the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines. Whether an ordinary citizen or a public official can acquire the correct answer to this question depends on the functioning of the epistemic basic structure of their society. The… Read More ›