Abstract In this paper, I reply to Seungbae Park’s (2021)
Critical Replies
Critical Replies are engagements with articles recently published in Social Epistemology.
Extending the Limits of Epistemic Neglect, Carla Carmona
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
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
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
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 ›
Epistemic Humility and the Social Relevance of Non-Knowledge, Alena Bleicher
In their paper, Parviainen, Kosiki, and Torkkola (2021) take as their point of departure the epistemic paradox of the need for scientific knowledge for evidence-based political decision-making in situations when science has no answers. This ties in with the observation… Read More ›
Commentary on Brian Martin’s “Tactics Against Scheming Diseases,” Sue Curry Jansen
Brian Martin’s backfire model provides a recipe for activists to respond to actions that violate established norms and are publicly perceived as unjust or extreme. It involves situations where disclosure of an offending act causes a public outcry, which fuels… Read More ›
Repairing Epistemic Injustice: A Reply to Song, Jennifer Page
The subject of Seunghyun Song’s recent Social Epistemology article is the imperial Japanese government’s practice of conscripting women from occupied countries into sexual slavery during the Asia–Pacific War. At so-called “comfort” stations, the trafficked women were raped by Japanese soldiers,… Read More ›
The Passive Subject: A Phenomenological Contribution to STS, Jesper Aagaard
About ten years ago, I had an idea for a PhD project: I wanted to study digital distraction. I had become fascinated by the peculiar experience of suddenly ‘finding’ oneself in the midst of distraction and wanted to study this… Read More ›
Epistemic Norms and Failures of Reporting, Beba Cibralic
In “Caliphate and the Social Epistemology of Podcasts”, Josh Habgood-Coote (2021) writes that the New York Times’ (referred to as the Times throughout) podcast Caliphate’s central flaw is that it “failed to accurately represent the credibility of someone whose speech… Read More ›