I was surprised by your letter of appreciation because … whew, that paper was risky. And it gets nowhere without an extreme reliance on a ton of folks. I’ll never forget a reviewer’s comment, and I’m paraphrasing here, ‘The author… Read More ›
Critical Appreciation
Critical Appreciation contributions are reflections on some of the most popular articles published in Social Epistemology.
A Letter to Claire Lockard: On “Conceptualizing Epistemic Oppression”, Part I, Kristie Dotson
Dear Claire, To say I was delighted to read your letter about “Conceptualizing Epistemic Oppression” (2014) is a bit of an understatement. I was elated. No. Overwhelmed with gratitude. Whatever the right word, I was overjoyed while reading your letter,… Read More ›
Critical Retrospective: An Open Letter to Commemorate the 10-Year Anniversary of Dotson’s “Conceptualizing Epistemic Oppression”, Claire A. Lockard
Dear Dr. Kristie Dotson, It is an honor to write to you. To commemorate the 10-year-anniversary of your paper “Conceptualizing Epistemic Oppression,” Jim Collier, the Editor of the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, asked me to write a Critical… Read More ›
A Critical Appreciation of Ronald N. Giere’s “Distributed Cognition without Distributed Knowing”, Matthew J. Brown
Author Information: Matthew J. Brown, University of Texas at Dallas, mattbrown@utdallas.edu Brown, Matthew J. “A Critical Appreciation of Ronald N. Giere’s ‘Distributed Cognition without Distributed Knowing’.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 4, no. 6 (2015): 45-51. The PDF of… Read More ›
On Justin Biddle’s ‘Lessons from the Vioxx Debacle,’ Julian Reiss and Sarah Wieten
Author Information: Julian Reiss, Durham University, julian.reiss@durham.ac.uk; Sarah Wieten, Durham University wietens@gmail.com Reiss, Julian and Sarah Wieten. “On Justin Biddle’s ‘Lessons from the Vioxx Debacle’.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 4, no. 5 (2015): 20-22. The PDF of the… Read More ›
Critical Appreciation of Jonathan Schaffer’s “The Contrast-Sensitivity of Knowledge Ascriptions”, Samuel Rickless
Author Information: Samuel Rickless, University of California, San Diego, srickless@ucsd.edu Rickless, Samuel. “Critical Appreciation of Jonathan Schaffer’s The Contrast-Sensitivity of Knowledge Ascriptions’.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 4, no. 4 (2015): 1-6. The PDF of the article gives specific… Read More ›