Critical Replies are engagements with articles recently published in Social Epistemology.
Abstract The issue of how best to combat the negative impacts of misinformation distributed via social media hangs on the following question: are there methods that most individuals can reasonably be expected to employ that would largely protect them from… Read More ›
Abstract Ljiljana Radenovic’s “Philosophy of my Faith” (2021) makes the valuable point that for a philosophical account of religious belief to be satisfactory it must adequately address what it is like to have religious belief. The challenge, Radenovic notes, is… Read More ›
In “Narrating Being through Phenomena: The Phenomenological and Sociological Insights of Harry Parker’s Anatomy of a Soldier” (2021), Mark Gilks defends a phenomenological interpretation of Anatomy of a Soldier (2016) by Harry Parker. The book is intriguing and puzzling because… Read More ›
Erin Beeghly’s “Stereotyping as Discrimination” is—characteristically—clear, thorough, and persuasive, rich with incisive arguments and thought-provoking case studies. In defending the view that stereotyping often constitutes discrimination, she makes a powerful case that, “Living ethically means cultivating a certain kind of… Read More ›
I am grateful to Jennifer Page, who wrote a generous and incisive reply to my paper “Denial of Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery and Responsibility for Epistemic Amends” (2021a). In this paper, I argue that publicly denying the “comfort women” issue—a… Read More ›
Abstract In a reply to Mizrahi (2019), Bryant (2020) raises several methodological concerns regarding my attempt to test hypotheses about the observation that academic philosophers tend to find “scientism” threatening empirically using quantitative, corpus-based methods. Chief among her methodological concerns… Read More ›
Colonialism, as a political structure and form of domination, has long ended in Africa and other southern countries. However, the power asymmetry in the world political economy persists as colonialism’s historical legacy. The structural domination of colonialism in the postcolonial… Read More ›
Lani Watson’s “Response” (2021a) to my article (2021) on alethic rights (AR), the rights related to truth, provides an extremely helpful contribution to AR theory. The exchange with Watson is particularly interesting as she has extensively elaborated on a similar… Read More ›
Giangiuseppe Pili (2021) has written an interesting response to my article, “Rethinking the Just Intelligence Theory of National Security Intelligence Collection and Analysis: The Principles of Discrimination, Necessity, Proportionality and Reciprocity” (Miller 2021). I agree with much of what Pili… Read More ›
Garfield Benjamin’s provocative paper, “From Protecting to Performing Privacy” (2020), challenges us to think differently. Where many scholars seeking to reinvigorate privacy do so through new definitions and conceptualizations (Solove 2008; Strahilevitz 2005; Richards and Hartzog 2016; Nissenbaum 2009; Waldman… Read More ›