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• A Dialogue on Intellectual Self-Trust: Replies to Congdon and Koskinen, Nadja El Kassar

  By SERRC on June 23, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  Many thanks to Matthew Congdon (2021) and Inkeri Koskinen (2021) for their inspiring replies. They demonstrate the great potential of individual and collective intellectual self-trust and give me the opportunity to develop and clarify my remarks in the original article… Read More ›

• On Justifying Epistocratic Political Institutions: A Reply to Samuel Bagg, Cyril Hédoin

  By SERRC on June 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Samuel Bagg (2021) has provided a sharp and thoroughly argued reply to my article “The ‘Epistemic Critique’ of Epistocracy and Its Inadequacy” (Hédoin 2021). This article was itself largely motivated by recent contributions intending to reject epistocracy based on what… Read More ›

• Why Park’s Argument from Double Spaces is Not a Problem for Relative Realism, Moti Mizrahi

  By SERRC on June 18, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Abstract In this paper, I reply to Seungbae Park’s (2021)

• Extending the Limits of Epistemic Neglect, Carla Carmona

  By SERRC on June 16, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The concept of epistemic neglect (EN) fills a conceptual lacuna by identifying a kind of epistemic injustice exercised by educators when they fail to extend ‘hopeful trust’, that is, the kind of trust that is knowingly extended despite the lack… Read More ›

• Giving, Receiving, and the Virtue of Testimonial Justice, Shannon Brick

  By SERRC on June 14, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  In “Silencing by Not Telling: Testimonial Void as a New Kind of Testimonial Injustice” (2021) Carla Carmona claims to have identified a new kind of testimonial injustice. The newly identified injustice is called testimonial void. Testimonial void occurs when a… Read More ›

• Echo Chambers, Epistemic Injustice and Anti-Intellectualism, Carline Klijnman

  By SERRC on June 11, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  C. Thi Nguyen’s (2020) recent account of echo chambers as social epistemic structures that actively exclude outsiders’ voices has sparked debate on the connection between echo chambers and epistemic injustice (Santos 2021; Catala 2021; Elzinga 2021). In this paper I… Read More ›

• Tomasello, Vygotsky, and the Phylogenesis of Mind: A Reply to Potapov’s “Objectification and the Labour of the Negative in the Origin of Human Thinking,” Chris Drain

  By SERRC on June 9, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  I appreciate Kyrill Potapov’s recent response “Objectification and the Labour of the Negative in the Origin of Human Thinking.” There, Potapov defends Vygotsky against my view that Tomasello’s account of the role of joint intentionality in the phylogenesis of human… Read More ›

• From Deficient Liberalism Toward a Deeper Sense of Freedom, Ljiljana Radenovic

  By SERRC on June 7, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Man’s freedom as a human being, as a principle of a commonwealth, can be expressed in the following formula. No one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may… Read More ›

• Zombie Epistemology: Or, I Ain’t Gonna Work on Zoltan’s Farm, Either, Part II, William T. Lynch

  By SERRC on June 4, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Steve Fuller’s work on transhumanism is interesting because it forces us to think about the long-term trajectory of the human species and the knowledge and technology it is likely to build in the future. He is surely right that the… Read More ›

• Zombie Epistemology: Or, I Ain’t Gonna Work on Zoltan’s Farm, Either, Part I, William T. Lynch

  By SERRC on June 2, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Zombie movies express for us the horror that would take place if the dead did not go away so that the living could pursue existence unimpeded by the dead hand of history. The horror is an inversion of the desire… Read More ›