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• Science, Trust and Justice: More Lessons from the Pandemic, Ahmet Faik Kurtulmuş

  By SERRC on June 6, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Take a question like the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines. Whether an ordinary citizen or a public official can acquire the correct answer to this question depends on the functioning of the epistemic basic structure of their society. The… Read More ›

• Of Foxes and Lions, Ahmed Bouzid

  By SERRC on June 3, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  He probably does not know this (or perhaps he does), but Boris Johnson is held in many Muslim quarters around the world in very high regard. Every video featuring him that I have seen pop up on a Facebook page… Read More ›

• Weaving Faith into a Moral Life, Ljiljana Radenović

  By SERRC on June 1, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Many philosophers have tried to define the moral thing to do in a challenging (either possible or fully imaginary) situation. Should we lie to the murderer about the whereabouts of his potential victim? Kant says: ‘No, we should not!’ Should… Read More ›

• SERRC: Volume 11, Issue 5, May 2022

  By SERRC on May 31, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Volume 11, Issue 5, 1-79, May 2022 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Riggio, Adam. 2022. “Becoming Gestalt: Human and Algorithmic Intelligence—Review of Machine Habitus.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 11 (5): 1-11. ❧ Prusik, Charles A. 2022. “Reply to… Read More ›

• Vaccination and Intellectual Honesty: Reflections on a Theme in Recent SERRC Articles, Kurtis Hagen

  By SERRC on May 30, 2022 • ( 5 )

  

  Should we be honest about vaccines? That is a serious question. Common sense says that “honesty is the best policy,” and I maintain that topics related to vaccination are not exceptional in this regard. However, some serious and well-intentioned people… Read More ›

• Facts, Deliberation and Efficiency: A Reply to Pauli, Ekaterina Lukianova

  By SERRC on May 27, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  The review process for our paper at Social Epistemology has been one of the most productive and engaged in our experience. We find it very rewarding that we can continue the discussion beyond its anonymous review mode, and are grateful… Read More ›

• The Rise of the Robots: Post-Digital Being, Des Hewitt

  By SERRC on May 25, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies is an easy book for me to review. Why do I make such an audacious statement at the start of this review? Because this book is inextricably linked to the last two books I… Read More ›

• We Need to Talk About Religion: A Response to Smith’s “A Quasi-Fideist Approach to QAnon,” David G. Robertson

  By SERRC on May 23, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  As a scholar of both religion and conspiracy theories, it was perhaps inevitable that Nicholas Smith’s (2022) recent article would catch my attention. Happily, I agreed with his conclusions in the main, but I was moved to respond nonetheless, as… Read More ›

• The Three Problems of Robots and AI, Joffrey Becker

  By SERRC on May 20, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Using examples from an ethnographic survey I conducted with manufacturers, researchers and users of so-called intelligent systems, this paper seeks to show that the relationship between humans and machines raises at least three categories of problems. The first one refers… Read More ›

• A Few Words on #Trust, Patricia Wong

  By SERRC on May 18, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  I am not a philosopher. I am a mathematician. I have taught mathematics for more than 30 years, and so, when it comes to knowledge, I am comfortable only where certainty can be obtained, or, if it cannot be obtained,… Read More ›