Author Archives
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Public Science Communication: Notes on the Reality and the Ideal, Lada V. Shipovalova and Yulia V. Shaposhnikova
An ongoing discussion and its emerging provocations and conflicting interpretations indicates, perhaps more than anything else, the significance of a topic or a text. Such a text or topic brings further into focus prominent contemporary issues which require serious reconsideration…. Read More ›
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Are You Looking for Trouble? A Reply to Mark Erickson’s “Afterword,” Alexander Ruser
Like Elvis, Mark Erickson is looking for trouble. Referring to Donna Haraway, Erickson argues that our vocation demands us to “stay with the trouble” (2020, 22). And while I wholeheartedly agree with him that social scientists should seek and stay… Read More ›
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“Changing Behaviour:” The Hierarchical and Bureaucratic Imperative of Instrumental Reason in the Corporatized University, Christian Garland
Universities in the Anglophone world of 2020, where teaching posts are ever fewer and contracts are ‘fixed term’ to use the preferred HR euphemism—meaning precarious, temporary and renewed if at all only at the whim of institutions—armies of management and… Read More ›
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Googling as Research: A Response to “(Google)-Knowing Economics,” Inna Kouper
Vicki Macknight and Fabien Medvecky’s “(Google-)Knowing Economics” (Social Epistemology 34, 3) raises many interesting questions. What does it mean to know in the digital age? Or, more specifically, what does it mean to know when the main source of knowledge… Read More ›
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Response to Mark Coeckelbergh’s Review of Transhumanism, Nature, and the Ends of Science, Robert Frodeman
The original title of the book was On Limit. My editor resisted the title; it wasn’t searchable, you know. But this remains the book’s central theme. I see the play of infinity and limit as the central dynamic of our… Read More ›
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SERRC, Volume 9, Issue 5, May 2020
Volume 9, Issue 5, May 2020 Articles, Replies, Reviews, and Reposts ❧ John B Min. “If Democracy is a Habit, How Might Citizens Practice It?” https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-54G. ❧ Matthew Goodrum. “Review: How History Gets Things Wrong by Alex Rosenberg.” https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-546. ❧… Read More ›
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On “Conceptualizing the Political Imaginary,” Brian C.J. Singer
The problem with the term “imaginary” is that, like the term “social” with which it threatens to become synonymous, it can attach itself to almost everything that crosses its path. Wolfgang Knöbl, in order to counter this tendency, proposes to… Read More ›
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If Democracy is a Habit, How Might Citizens Practice It? John B. Min
The rise of authoritarianism, fascism, and illiberalism are all contributing factors to the malaise of the dark times of democracy. Many books written on this topic share a common theme. Whether one argues that democracy is resilient or democracy rests… Read More ›
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Reply to Neil Levy’s “Is Conspiracy Theorising Irrational?” David Coady
Neil Levy says that he rejects something he calls my “solution to the problem” (2019 fn 3). This is doubly wrong, since I not only don’t advocate the so-called solution he ascribes to me, I also don’t think the so-called… Read More ›
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Review: How History Gets Things Wrong by Alex Rosenberg, Matthew Goodrum
Rosenberg begins by distinguishing between narrative history and other forms of history where historical subjects are treated in ways shaped by social science research. It is the first type of history, which offers explanations of historical events and the actions… Read More ›