Author Archives
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A Match and Some Gasoline, Des Hewitt
Michael Gibson’s Paper Belt on Fire: How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University is inextricably linked to my own interests: the university and its purpose. You might think that I will find it an easy book to review…. Read More ›
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Rage in America: Why is this Happening? Part II, Steven James Bartlett
The Psychological Complexities of Crowding The solution of a complex problem seldom yields to a simple solution. Human beings are, as most of us believe, a great deal more psychologically complex than non-human animals. Our individual psychologies are complex, our… Read More ›
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Rage in America: Why is this Happening? Part I, Steven James Bartlett
Rage in America has become commonplace. Mass killings are now an everyday occurrence: During 2022, there were 647 mass shootings (in each, at least four victims were killed).[1] This means that mass murders have been occurring in our country during… Read More ›
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Pluralism About Group Knowledge: A Reply to Jesper Kallestrup, Avram Hiller and R. Wolfe Randall
Jesper Kallestrup (2022b) has provided an insightful response to our paper, “Epistemic Structure in Non-Summative Social Knowledge” (Hiller and Randall 2022). Kallestrup identifies some important issues pertaining to our non-summative, non-supervenient (NSNS) account of group knowledge which we did not… Read More ›
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Alternative Modernity and Its Discontents, Ljiljana Radenovic
The story of modernity, including its successes and failures, often revolves around several crucial points that arguably represent a break with the pre-modern past. Depending on our political, religious, social, and personal tastes, we celebrate it as a human success… Read More ›
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“Hate Speech”, Vaccines and Censor-Mindset: Is SERRC Killing Children? Lee Basham
“Do Crimes, Save Lives.” —Raoul Wallenberg Raoul Wallenberg famously wrote, “I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I’d done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible.” He… Read More ›
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Some Thoughts on Science, Dialectics and Capital—After Luis Arboledas-Lérida, Glenn Rikowski
For Marx, capital is the ‘general illumination which bathes all the other colours and modifies their particularity’ (Marx 1973, 107; Bonefeld 1987, 35). Luis Arboledas-Lerida’s “The Gap Between Science and Society and the Intrinsically Capitalistic Character of Science Communication” (2022a)… Read More ›
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The Method of Convergent Realism, Part III: A Reply to Haklay, Chris Santos-Lang
Muki Haklay’s (2022) response, “Is Convergent Realism an Appropriate Method for Evaluating Ethics?”, to my article “The Method of Convergent Realism” (2022) did not criticize the method’s application to the natural sciences or mathematics, but raised three challenges to the suggestion that the… Read More ›
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Nothing to Lose but Our (Digital) Chains! Adam Riggio
Digital Humanism: A Philosophy for the 21st Century, Christian Fuchs’s latest book, is a collection of essays that are linked, broadly, through examining different aspects of the digital humanities and humanity’s becoming digital. The best essays in the book cover… Read More ›
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SERRC: The Ten Most Viewed Posts in 2022
The list below provides the articles, replies, reviews, and interviews most viewed during 2022. As you will see, these pieces were published at different times over the last decade. We invite you to read a sample of the exceptional range… Read More ›