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• Review: How History Gets Things Wrong by Alex Rosenberg, Matthew Goodrum

  By SERRC on May 27, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  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 ›

• Suicidology is for Cutting: Epistemic Injustice and Decolonial Critiques, Jennifer White

  By SERRC on May 25, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Within suicidology, “cutting” most often refers to self-harming practices, which are generally conceptualized as pathological, problematic and a target for professional intervention. And yet, there are alternative (subjugated) meanings, informed by those who engage in self-harm, which can offer some… Read More ›

• Talking Strategy: Conceptualizing Resistance in Oppressive Systems Through Play, Alice Fox

  By SERRC on May 22, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  In her post “Inside a Game: Using Games as a Metaphor for Deconstructing the Oppressive Nature of Reality” (2020), Sindi Breshani utilizes the game Papers, Please to take a deep dive into oppressive realities and the ways in which political… Read More ›

• Some Thoughts on the Relationship Between Scientism and Empirical Methods in Philosophy, Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow

  By SERRC on May 21, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Moti Mizrahi, in his 2019 “The Scientism Debate: A Battle for the Soul of Philosophy?” argues that the perceived threat of scientism to philosophy hinges upon a confluence of two distinct, but overlapping, phenomena. The first of these phenomena is… Read More ›

• Some Demarcations and a Dilemma: Comments On Mizrahi, Kyriaki Grammenou

  By SERRC on May 20, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Let us start by examining a couple of assumptions which, albeit not explicitly, seem to inform Mizrahi’s text. He writes that “many philosophers seem to think that scientism poses a threat to them as teachers” and also that “scientism is… Read More ›

• A Translator’s Response to Reviewers’ Comments: On Li Zehou’s A History of Classical Chinese Thought, Andrew Lambert

  By SERRC on May 18, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  I am grateful for this opportunity to discuss Li Zehou’s work in this interdisciplinary forum, particularly because Li’s ideas are well suited to a cross-cultural and multi-perspectival approach. His bold ideas seek to bridge cultural traditions; yet their suggestiveness is… Read More ›

• Review of Transhumanism, Nature, and the Ends of Science by Robert Frodeman, Mark Coeckelbergh

  By SERRC on May 11, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Partly due to sustained and energetic promotion by transhumanist thinkers themselves … transhumanism and related topics such as human enhancement are by now widely known in academic communities that reflect on technology. For example, there is ongoing work on the… Read More ›

• The Making of Bullshit Leadership and Toxic Management in the Neoliberal University, John Smyth

  By SERRC on May 6, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  My over-arching argument in this article is that both academics and students in universities have been afflicted by a set of relations that Lauren Berlant refers to as ‘cruel optimism’ (2011). Cruel optimism according to Berlant, constitutes the holding out… Read More ›

• Belonging to the Land: A Review of Bruno Latour’s Down to Earth, Eric Kerr

  By SERRC on May 4, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Bruno Latour’s Down to Earth explores the way in which global political action today embodies multiple contradictions in our relationship to land. More precisely, our relationship to that part of the Earth that comprises the crust and the atmosphere, where… Read More ›

• SERRC, Volume 9, Issue 4, April 2020

  By SERRC on April 30, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Volume 9, Issue 4, April 2020 Articles ❧ Martin Hinton. “Can Novices be Taught to Choose Trustworthy Experts? Optimism for Reasoning—A Reply to Johnny Brennan.” ❧ Jamie Carlin Watson. “Hunting the Expert: The Precarious Epistemic Position of a Novice.” ❧… Read More ›