Author Archives
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On Anticipatory Epistemic Injustice: Replies to Eric Bayruns García and Trystan S. Goetze, Ji-Young Lee
I am grateful to both Eric Bayruns García and Trystan S. Goetze for their insightful commentaries on my original article, ‘Anticipatory Epistemic Injustice’. In this entry, I pick up on some of their responses to my work … [please read… Read More ›
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Symposium in Honor of Joseph Agassi, Nov 17-18, 2021
Symposium in Honor of Joseph Agassi, Nov 17-18, 2021. Please see the pdf with the schedule. Speakers will include Malachi Hacohen, Nathaniel Laor, Jeremy Shearmur, Bill Berkson, Stefano Gattei, Lydia Amir, Ian Jarvie, Raphael Sassower, Michael Segr, Chen Yehezkeli, Nimrod… Read More ›
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Is Myside Bias Irrational? A Biased Review of The Bias that Divides Us, Neil Levy
The Bias That Divides Us (2021) is about myside bias, the supposed bias whereby we generate and test hypotheses and evaluate evidence in a way that is biased toward our own prior beliefs. Myside bias prevents convergence in beliefs: if… Read More ›
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Towards a Knowledge Socialism: A Digital Sedition, Des Hewitt
It isn’t very often that a book comes along that offers the opportunity to write a review which is facilitated so well by the very logic and structure of the work in question: Knowledge Socialism is an edited and collaborative… Read More ›
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Suspecting, Blaming, and Profiling: On Lloyd’s Epistemic Objection to (Racial) Profiling, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
Racial policing is one of the most controversial police practices. Proponents typically argue that racial profiling is an important tool if the police is to use its resources efficiently in the interest of deterring and detecting crime. Critics typically argue… Read More ›
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A Further Characterization of Testimonial Void in Dialogue with Other Forms of Testimonial Injustice, Carla Carmona
1. Agreements or Quasi-Agreements I am grateful for Shannon Brick’s (2021) perceptive and stimulating critical commentary on my characterization of the phenomenon of ‘testimonial void’ (TV): a newly identified kind of testimonial injustice (TI) according to which “a speaker withholds… Read More ›
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SERRC: Volume 10, Issue 9, September 2021
Volume 10, Issue 9, September 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Harris, Randy Allen. 2021. “X Marks the Spot: An Appreciative Response to Morales’s Review of Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies and Issues and Methods.” Social Epistemology… Read More ›
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X Marks the Spot: An Appreciative Response to Morales’s Review of Landmark Essays On Rhetoric Of Science: Case Studies and Issues and Methods, Randy Allen Harris
Alexander William Morales’s (2021) shoe in this review was once on the other foot, mine. As an early-career scholar I wrote a review of Alan G. Gross’s groundbreaking (1990) The Rhetoric of Science. Gross responded with extraordinary grace, which, very… Read More ›
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Civil Service Intelligence Ethics: A Reply to Miller’s “Rethinking the Just Intelligence Theory of National Security Intelligence Collection and Analysis”, Michael T. Collins
Intelligence Collection—like tax collection, courts, Law enforcement, environmental regulation, etc.—is an exercise of government power.[1] Like other exercises of authority, Intelligence Collection must work within constraints (at least in countries bound by the rule of Law). Intelligence Collection is also—alongside… Read More ›
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A Covid Paradigm? Brian Martin
Is it plausible or useful to talk of the main response to the Covid pandemic as being a paradigm? To find out, it’s worth exploring key elements of the concept of paradigm as applied outside of science … [please read… Read More ›