Author Archives
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Our Techno-Masters and their Philosophical Cheerleaders: A Review of Richmond’s A Way Through the Global Techno-Scientific Culture, Stephen Turner
Sheldon Richmond is a philosopher who spent his working career in IT, and has written an ambitious and courageous book on the philosophy of the problem of computer technology that integrates philosophy of science and cultural and political aspects of… Read More ›
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Pathologies of a Shuddering Civilization: Review of Fuchs’s Communicating COVID-19, Adam Riggio
Books like Christian Fuchs’s Communicating COVID-19 are necessary for our time. They are documents and analyses of global human civilization’s violent mutation, already catastrophically in progress. They document the causes and conditions of how humanity has failed the great test… Read More ›
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A Rational Disagreement about Myside Bias, Keith E. Stanovich
Who says that book reviewing is dead? Within just a couple of weeks of the appearance of my new book, The Bias That Divides Us, it received two reviews that were in-depth and theoretically astute—one destined for the American Journal… Read More ›
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Some are Still Locked Out after being Locked Down: Review of Bruno Latour, After Lockdown, Raphael Sassower
How does it feel to be under lockdown because of the coronavirus epidemic? Bruno Latour, a leading scholar of the science studies community for the past four decades, answers: “I feel like a load of washing in the drum of… Read More ›
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Gaia and COVID: A Review of Bruno Latour’s After Lockdown, Mark D. West
Bruno Latour’s new After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis (2021) offers to the reader in what is said in the text Latour at his best—and also, by what goes unsaid, Latour at his most cryptic … [please read below the rest of… Read More ›
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The Possibility of Epistemic Nudging: Reply to My Critics, Thomas Grundmann
In “The Possibility of Epistemic Nudging” (2021), I address a phenomenon that is widely neglected in the current literature on nudges: intentional doxastic nudging, i.e. people’s intentional influence over other people’s beliefs, rather than over their choices. I argue that,… Read More ›
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Empathy Revisited, Ljiljana Radenovic
In his science fiction novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip Dick’s main character, Deckard, has a peculiar job—to find and “retire” androids who have begun to misbehave. However, all recently-created androids look and act exactly like humans, and… Read More ›
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Misinformation and the Limits of Individual Responsibility, Part Two, Boyd Millar
3. Some Alternative Proposals If it isn’t reasonable to expect individuals to avoid social media altogether, and if merely supplementing your social media use with high-quality news consumption doesn’t largely protect you from the negative impacts of misinformation, then perhaps… Read More ›
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Misinformation and the Limits of Individual Responsibility, Part One, Boyd Millar
Abstract The issue of how best to combat the negative impacts of misinformation distributed via social media hangs on the following question: are there methods that most individuals can reasonably be expected to employ that would largely protect them from… Read More ›
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Faith Seeking Understanding: A Reply to Radenovic’s “Philosophy of my Faith,” David Ellis
Abstract Ljiljana Radenovic’s “Philosophy of my Faith” (2021) makes the valuable point that for a philosophical account of religious belief to be satisfactory it must adequately address what it is like to have religious belief. The challenge, Radenovic notes, is… Read More ›