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• Scientism or Interdisciplinarity? Robert C. Bishop

  By SERRC on December 16, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Moti Mizrahi’s “The Scientism Debate: A Battle for the Soul of Philosophy?” frames the introduction of scientific methods into philosophy as scientism (specifically a kind of weak scientism). This contrasts with the view that scientific methods only have their place… Read More ›

• Four Points in Response to Seungbae Park, Richard A. Healey

  By SERRC on December 13, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  I thank Seungbae for his spirited and enjoyable reply (2019a) to my comments (2019) on his article (2019). Here, I make four brief points in response … [please read below the rest of the article]. Article Citation: Healey, Richard A…. Read More ›

• Warm Encouragement and Sharp Analysis for Interdisciplinary Scholars: A Review of Being an Interdisciplinary Academic, Seungmi Chung

  By SERRC on December 11, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Catherine Lyall’s Being an Interdisciplinary Academic: How Institutions Shape University Careers (2019) describes the lives of early-career interdisciplinary scholars and analyzes the difficulties and systematic problems they experience. Lyall lends encouragement both to these researchers and to those considering entering… Read More ›

• Two Kinds of Social Epistemology Revisited, Finn Collin

  By SERRC on December 9, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the publication of Alvin Goldman’s Knowledge in a Social World (Goldman 1999), the editors of the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective have invited me to write an update of my 2013… Read More ›

• Comment on Martin’s Review of Hoffman, Sal Restivo

  By SERRC on December 7, 2019 • ( 0 )

  In the wake of Kant and his critics I think we can assume with calm certainty that we do not and cannot have access to a thing as such in any form. And in the wake of Ryle and others… Read More ›

• Response to Jeroen de Ridder’s “So What if ‘Fake News’ is Fake News?” David Coady

  By SERRC on December 6, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  It is tempting to accept the studies de Ridder (2019) cites in support of my position that the fake news scare has been “overhyped”. However, since I have argued there is no fake news problem at all, I cannot accept… Read More ›

• Do We See Icons or Reality? A Review of Donald Hoffman’s The Case Against Reality, Brian Martin

  By SERRC on December 5, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  Imagine looking at a computer desktop. You see various icons that you can modify, move around, stick into folders and delete. The desktop is a type of reality. If you wanted, you could formulate an ontology and epistemology, or laws… Read More ›

• Against Empirical-ish Philosophy: Reply to Mizrahi, Jeroen de Ridder

  By SERRC on December 3, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Is the debate about scientism ‘a battle for the soul of philosophy’, as Moti Mizrahi (2019) contends? If it is, it is unlikely that the proponents of scientism would be inclined to put it this way … [please read below… Read More ›

• Enriching the Chinese Intellectual Legacy: A Review of Li Zehou’s A History of Classical Chinese Thought, Jana S. Rošker

  By SERRC on December 2, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Regarding the issue of social epistemology, the present book is an important source for obtaining a better understanding of such models of constructing knowledge which are based on collective experiences, and which simultaneously offer manifold insights into its social dimensions…. Read More ›

• Action and ‘Civil Death’ in the Securitised University: A Comment on Jana Bacevic’s ‘Knowing Neoliberalism’, Lakshmi S. Bose

  By SERRC on November 28, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  I read Jana Bacevic’s article, ‘Knowing Neoliberalism’, shortly after completing a series of challenging interviews with Turkish academics, recently fired or under investigation for signing the Academics for Peace petition … [please read below the rest of the article]. Article… Read More ›