Author Archives
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Tributaries on a Heraclitian River: A Collaborative Review of Joseph Pitt’s Heraclitus Redux, Leo Campos, Kendall Giles, Tiffany Smith
Imagine, if you will, that you are present in the Garden of Eden, a background character at the big show. To your left is an important tree with some apples on it, but there are also other trees in the… Read More ›
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Epistemic Norms and Failures of Reporting, Beba Cibralic
In “Caliphate and the Social Epistemology of Podcasts”, Josh Habgood-Coote (2021) writes that the New York Times’ (referred to as the Times throughout) podcast Caliphate’s central flaw is that it “failed to accurately represent the credibility of someone whose speech… Read More ›
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SERRC: Volume 10, Issue 4, April 2021
Volume 10, Issue 4, April 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Schyfter, Pablo. 2021. “Knowing for Something’s Sake.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (4): 37-44. https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-5Nm. ❧ Bagg, Samuel. 2021. “Reply to Cyril Hédoin’s ‘The “Epistemic Critique” of… Read More ›
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Knowing for Something’s Sake, Pablo Schyfter
In ‘How to Do Things with Knowledge,’ (2021) Massimiliano Simons presents a comprehensive and insightful response to ‘Knowing Use’ (2020) in which I contend that functionality is a fundamental quality of all knowledge claims. Simons considers the article’s originality and… Read More ›
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Reply to Cyril Hédoin’s “The ‘Epistemic Critique’ of Epistocracy and Its Inadequacy,” Samuel Bagg
The core of Cyril Hédoin’s (2021) essay is a critique of a recent article by Julian Reiss (2019), which claims to offer an “epistemic critique” of epistocracy.[1] As Hédoin explains in §I, in short, Reiss offers two reasons that epistocracy… Read More ›
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Extreme Testimonial Injustice or Discursive Injustice? A Reply to Townsend and Townsend on Indigenous Peoples in the Inter-American Human Rights System, Aidan McGlynn
Miranda Fricker’s Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2007) has inspired an incredible amount of work, both with philosophy and more broadly. Some of this work is more theoretical in nature: for example, trying to refine our understanding… Read More ›
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What is Hermeneutical Injustice and Who Should We Blame? Elinor Mason
In this engaging paper, “Who’s to Blame? Hermeneutical Misfire, Forward-Looking Responsibility, and Collective Accountability” (2021), Hilkje Hänel offers an account of the ways in which both victims and perpetrators of sexual violation are subject to cognitive distortions due to sexist… Read More ›
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“You Don’t Know Where Your Interest Lies”: A Brief Reply to Professor Radi on his Remarks About Professor Córdoba and Gender Identity, Claudio Javier Cormick
Professor Blas Radi’s article, “Epistemic Responsibility and Culpable Ignorance: About Editorial and Peer Review in Practical Philosophy” (2021), presents an interesting series of problems and proposals as a reaction to a particularly defective article on gender questions published by Dianoia…. Read More ›
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Humanities Center’s Virtual Book Launch: William T. Lynch
The following YouTube video—”Humanities Center’s Virtual Book Launch: William T. Lynch”—recorded on April 1 (2021) at Wayne State University—offers an engaging discussion—initially among Bill Lynch and Steve Fuller—about the issues and arguments raised in Lynch’s Minority Report: Dissent and Diversity… Read More ›
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From Group Scaffolded Individual Self-Trust to Group Self-Trust, Karen Jones
Nadja El Kassar (2021) argues that collective intellectual self-trust can both block the negative effects of epistemic injustice and support active resistance to it. Collectives enable those who might otherwise suffer the corrosive effects of having their epistemic capacities routinely… Read More ›