Comments are responses to existing SERRC contributions, including articles and book reviews.
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 ›
Volume 9, Issue 5, May 2020 Articles, Replies, Reviews, and Reposts ❧ John B Min. “If Democracy is a Habit, How Might Citizens Practice It?” https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-54G. ❧ Matthew Goodrum. “Review: How History Gets Things Wrong by Alex Rosenberg.” https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-546. ❧… Read More ›
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 ›
Imagine the following scenario. You are a doctor working in a hospital in a very large and relatively polluted city, normally subject to a high level of seasonal respiratory ailments. Moreover, your healthcare system is stretched because of budget cuts… Read More ›
Were you looking forward to giving a paper at a spring conference or meeting where you sought feedback from insightful, engaged colleagues? Concerns regarding the Covid-19 pandemic have likely changed your plans. I would like to offer the Social Epistemology… Read More ›
Iran and the US have charted two divergent and hostile paths over the last 30 years. Under Reagan and the successive US presidents, Saddam Hussein, firstly, and then the neighbouring countries in the region were armed to the teeth …… Read More ›
CFP: Weak Scientism and the Future of Philosophy Topic areas Metaphilosophy General Philosophy of Science Philosophy of Science, Miscellaneous Details The Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (SERRC) invites contributions to a dialogue on Weak Scientism, which will then serve… Read More ›
In the wake of Kant and his critics I think we can assume with calm certainty that we do not and cannot have access to a thing as such in any form. And in the wake of Ryle and others… Read More ›
“Science is a Quantum Phenomenon and Scientism is its Observer Effect” Steve Fuller, University of Warwick, S.W.Fuller@warwick.ac.uk Nature published a letter of mine in response to Nathaniel Comfort’s piece, written for the journal’s 150th anniversary, entitled ‘How science has shifted… Read More ›
Stephen Hawking declared the death of philosophy. Was he right? Has science rendered philosophy obsolete? Should we be looking to science to answer the biggest questions, or are there areas of understanding that science cannot reach that philosophy can? What… Read More ›