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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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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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 ›