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Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Season 3, Episodes 1-6
Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Season 3, Episodes 1-6. We open Season 3 of Humanity 8.0 with a 6-episode drop of 3 interviews with four insightful people: • Anne Alombert, Associate Professor in contemporary French philosophy at the University of Paris 8;… Read More ›
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Introduction to the Farsi Translation of Kuhn vs. Popper, Steve Fuller
2023 marks the twentieth anniversary of my book, Kuhn vs. Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science. This introduction to the Farsi translation provides an excellent opportunity to reflect on the significance of their disagreement, considering how the intellectual… Read More ›
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Reply to Bollen’s “Towards a Clear and Fair Conceptualization of Empathy”, Colin Marshall
Caroline Bollen’s “Towards a Clear and Fair Conceptualization of Empathy” (2023) raises important questions about whether current academic approaches to empathy wrongly imply that neurodivergent people (especially those with autism) are morally inferior. Bollen offers a novel understanding of empathy… Read More ›
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What’s in the Darkness? Understanding Fringe and Pseudoscience, Adam Tamas Tuboly
The “question of science” consists of many tiny, though rather complicated questions; but defining science, or at least the continuous attempts to characterize science in a unique way, has always had a peculiar socio-cultural implication. The question of what science… Read More ›
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Are We Wiser Together? A Review of Cizek and Uricchio’s Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice, Tertia Gillett
Acts of collective creation are varied and plentiful, but they are commonly overlooked and rendered invisible in a contemporary culture invested in sole authorship and individual ownership. Katerina Cizek and William Uricchio draw our attention to this phenomenon by reminding… Read More ›
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SERRC: Volume 12, Issue 8, 1-65, August 2023
Volume 12, Issue 8, 1-65, August 2023 ❧ Hewitt, Des. 2023. “Requiem for Expertise.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 12 (8): 1-9. ❧ Walker, Jesse. 2023. “Defining ‘Conspiracy Theory’: A Reply to Lee Basham.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply… Read More ›
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Creative Misreadings, Jesse Walker
Lee Basham’s article is wildly inaccurate.[1] I do not mean that he has marshaled poor arguments against my positions; I mean that the positions he is arguing against are not mine in the first place. He attributes opinions to me… Read More ›
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Two Problems with the Generalist-Particularist Distinction in the Philosophy of Conspiracy Theory and Why I am not a Generalist, Steve Clarke
I conducted some of the ‘first generation’ work in analytic philosophy on conspiracy theories (Clarke 2002; 2006; 2007),[1] and then set the topic aside for 14 years.[2] The current scene is quite different from the one I left. One difference… Read More ›
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Jesse Walker’s “Broad Church” of Conspiracy Theory: We’re all Paranoids, Lee Basham
Wish politicians looked out for miners instead of minors on some island somewhere. … They want to have total control, know what you think, know what you do. — Oliver Anthony Jesse Walker’s background premise is that we are paranoiacs…. Read More ›
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Is Academic Research Sufficiently Communist? A Comment on Bright and Heesen, Daniel J. Dunleavy
Liam Kofi Bright and Remco Heesen (2023) seek to identify a more pragmatic and fruitful criterion for demarcating academic from commercial research. Having described the limitations of criteria based on epistemic success they propose adopting the Mertonian social norm of… Read More ›