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• Reflections on Boundary Work on Social Epistemology, Hanna Kiri Gunn

  By SERRC on August 4, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  “Boundary work” refers to the practice of establishing and defining research areas, which in part involves locating research questions or topics within particular disciplines. As a consequence, boundary work also involves practices that put boundaries around ourselves as researchers of… Read More ›

• SERRC, Volume 9, Issue 7, July 2020

  By SERRC on July 31, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Volume 9, Issue 7, July 2020 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Smith, Nicholas D. 2020. “Collective Belief Questioned.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 9 (7): 58-63. https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-5f0. ❧ Wallace, Rodrick. 2020. “A Comment on Collective Belief.” Social Epistemology Review… Read More ›

• Collective Belief Questioned, Nicholas D. Smith

  By SERRC on July 30, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  In their impressive article, “Collective Belief Defended,” Michael G. Bruno and J. M. Fritzman argue “that there are no fundamental obstacles to ontologically countenancing conscious cognitive collectives” (Bruno and Fritzman 2020, 1) … [please read below the rest of the… Read More ›

• A Comment on Collective Belief, Rodrick Wallace

  By SERRC on July 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  As Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela (1980) and others remark at some length, cognitive phenomena pervade biology from individual cellular function, ‘simple’ wound healing, through immune maintenance and response, tumor control, neural function, social interaction, and so on (e.g., Wallace… Read More ›

• Google-Knowing From Within Google’s Political Economy: In Reply to Inna Kouper, Vicki Macknight

  By SERRC on July 23, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  I extend thanks to Inna Kouper for her response to “(Google-) Knowing Economics”, which I co-authored with Fabien Medvekcy. The points she raises are fascinating and important, as is this whole area of study. How we come to know with… Read More ›

• In and Beyond the Era of COVID-19

  By SERRC on July 20, 2020 • ( 0 )

  In this forum, members and associates of the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective examine significant issues and contestations arising in and beyond the era of COVID-19. A focal point arises as we consider whether or not to think of… Read More ›

• Debating the Significance of Disagreement: A Review of John Pittard’s Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment, Jonathan Matheson

  By SERRC on July 16, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Richard Feldman’s “Reasonable Religious Disagreements” launched debates about the epistemic significance of disagreement that have been a dominant point of discussion in epistemology as of late. While most of these debates have been concerned with disagreement more generally, Feldman’s original… Read More ›

• Further Remarks on the Imaginary, José Maurício Domingues

  By SERRC on July 14, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Brian Singer’s (2020) commentary on “Conceptualizing the Modern Imaginary” (a special issue of Social Epistemology) invites further reflection on the discussion among the contributors. I welcome this opportunity. Many concerns with which I have great sympathy are raised in the… Read More ›

• What Did We Learn From L’Aquila? Scientist Citizens and Public Communication, Pamela Pietrucci and Leah Ceccarelli

  By SERRC on July 10, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  We enter this conversation precisely to continue this productive exchange on the lessons to be learned from L’Aquila, grounding our response to both DeVasto and Felbacher-Escamilla on our previous work about the same case published in 2019 in Rhetoric &… Read More ›

• Review Of Joseph C. Pitt, Heraclitus Redux: Technological Infrastructures and Scientific Change, Andrew Aberdein

  By SERRC on July 8, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Bobby Shaftoe, one of the protagonists of Neal Stephenson’s sprawling epic Cryptonomicon, learns that some tools have infrastructure: the systems necessary for their successful operation far exceed what any one individual could hope to control… [please read below the rest… Read More ›