Author Archives
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There is Always Time for Critique, Raphael Sassower
In this sense, the present review essay is a form of critique, just as the anthology under review comprises of fourteen critiques and as a whole is a meta-critique. In philosophical circles, critique dates back to Socrates whose dialogues are… Read More ›
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Further Thoughts on “Epistemic Barriers to Rational Voting:” A Response to Faruk Aksoy, Fabio Wolkenstein
I would like to thank Faruk Aksoy (2020) for his thoughtful, clear-sighted and generous engagement with my paper “Epistemic Barriers to Rational Voting: The Case of European Parliament Elections” (2020). In this short piece, I want to respond to the… Read More ›
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SERRC, Volume 9, Issue 6, June 2020
Volume 9, Issue 6, June 2020 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Mugg, Joshua. 2020. “A Rejoinder to Charles Lassiter’s ‘Response to Joshua Mugg’s ‘How Not to Deal with the Tragic Dilemma’ ’.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 9 (6):… Read More ›
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A Rejoinder to Charles Lassiter’s “Response to Joshua Mugg’s ‘How Not to Deal with the Tragic Dilemma’,” Joshua Mugg
This post is a rejoinder to Charles Lassister’s response (2020) to my article “How Not to Deal with the Tragic Dilemma.” A discussion of how to navigate a social world structured by racism is, unfortunately, timely … [please read below… Read More ›
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Self-Defeat, Inconsistency, and the Debunking of Science, René van Woudenberg
Alexander Rosenberg’s newest book, How History Gets Things Wrong. The Neuroscience of our Addiction to Stories, is a frustrating read. After presenting an overview of the book, I explain why. I end by suggesting a more promising route…. [please read… Read More ›
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Clarity, Value Conflict, and Academic Politics: Weber’s “Science as a Vocation” a Hundred Years Later, Joshua Rust and Steven Smallpage
Weber’s is an investigation into the nature of the scientist’s calling or vocation, given the disenchantment of the world. Weber notes what most of the students in his audience already appreciate—that this disenchantment necessarily precludes historically influential characterizations of the… Read More ›
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A Reply to Jun’s “Posthuman Subjectivity and Singularity in the Nature-Culture Continuum,” Aleksandra Łukaszewicz Alcaraz
In his article on “Posthuman Subjectivity and Singularity in the Nature-Culture Continuum” (2020) Hyun-Shik Jun challenges Rosi Braidotti’s approach to the emergence and ontology of posthuman subjectivity from the nature-culture continuum. He analyzes the idea of the human as posthuman… Read More ›
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Finding the Snark Together: A Response to Watson and Hinton, Johnny Brennan
I would like to begin by thanking Jamie Watson (2020) and Martin Hinton (2020) for their charitable treatments of my paper (2020) and their illuminating replies. They are right to even further temper my already reserved optimism about novices’ capabilities… Read More ›
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Enchantment vs Scientism in Contemporary Culture: A Reply to Mark Erickson, Elena E. Chebotareva
In these days of the COVID-19 pandemic it makes sense to recall Max Weber, who died from an epidemic virus 100 years ago, in order both to reflect on the practical value of scientific methods and the possibility of science… Read More ›
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Public Science Communication: Notes on the Reality and the Ideal, Lada V. Shipovalova and Yulia V. Shaposhnikova
An ongoing discussion and its emerging provocations and conflicting interpretations indicates, perhaps more than anything else, the significance of a topic or a text. Such a text or topic brings further into focus prominent contemporary issues which require serious reconsideration…. Read More ›