Author Archives
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Avoiding the Stereotyping of the Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories: A Reply to Hill, M R. X. Dentith
Scott Hill has recently challenged philosophers like myself, Lee Basham, and the other signatories of our 2016, for both our criticisms of an article by some social scientists which appeared in Le Monde back in 2016, and for supposedly and… Read More ›
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Returning to Bloor and the Strong Program: A Brief Rejoinder to Shahryari, Finn Collin
In his article, “The Strong Program and Asymmetrical Explanation of the History of Science: A Reply to Collin” (Shahryari 2022b), Shahram Shahryari responds to my comments (in Collin 2022) upon his original article, “A Tension in the Strong Program: The… Read More ›
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A Bibliography and Brief History of the Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories, Kurtis Hagen
The current discussion of conspiracy theories occurring in the philosophical literature began in 1995 when Charles Pigden reflected on Karl Popper’s influential argument against the “conspiracy theory of society.” Pigden noticed that Popper’s critique was not really directed at conspiracy… Read More ›
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A Revised Defense of the Le Monde Group, Scott Hill
On January 7th, 2015 two French brothers shot, injured, and killed staff in the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine, in Paris, France. Over the next several days, connected attacks followed. The brothers pledged their allegiance to the Islamic… Read More ›
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Critique Without Normative Foundations: Response to Vogelmann and Prusik, Iaan Reynolds
I was grateful to read the commentaries on my article offered in this forum by Charles Prusik (2022) and Frieder Vogelmann (2022), both of whose earlier writings were influential for my thinking about progress in critical theory. Despite our broad… Read More ›
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On Epistocracy’s Epistemic Problem: Reply to Méndez, Adam F. Gibbons
In a recent paper, María Pía Méndez (2022) offers an epistemic critique of epistocracy according to which the sort of politically well-informed but homogenous groups of citizens that would be empowered under epistocracy would lack reliable access to information about… Read More ›
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SERRC: Volume 11, Issue 7, July 2022
Volume 11, Issue 7, 1-60, July 2022 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Hill, Scott. 2022. “A Defense of the Le Monde Group.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 11 (7): 1-8. ❧ Radenović, Ljiljana. 2022. “Misunderstanding the Human and the… Read More ›
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A Cento on Plagiarism, Brian L. Frye
Art is not truth; art is a lie that enables us to recognize truth.[1] The law is the least artistic medium ever devised by humankind. After all, the law is society’s super ego to art’s id, and the legal system… Read More ›
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Some Clarifications and a Modest View on Social Epistemology and Religion: A Reply to Robertson, Nicholas Smith
I’d like to thank David Robertson (2022) for his response to my work (2022). It gave me quite a bit to consider, especially given that I tend to think of myself as an epistemologist in a broadly analytic tradition, rather… Read More ›
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The Spaces of Science: Post-Colonial Design, Communication, and Enhancing Practice, John P. DiMoia
The notion of robust discussion leading to a “better,” more productive style of scientific practice has a lengthy set of origins as a trope, and it has a particularly strong hold in the political conversations of the early 1930s, the… Read More ›