• Joe Cruz, Williams College In the near term, I’m not much worried about the effect on the work students do. Yes, ChatGPT is impressive. If I were teaching an 11th grade US history class, I would probably have to… Read More ›
Interviews
The Interviews page includes one-time or on-going interviews with thinkers working in the area of social epistemology.
24 Philosophy Professors React to ChatGPT’s Arrival, Part I, Ahmed Bouzid
For someone like myself who makes their living in the field of Human Language Technology, two dates from the past decade or so have stood as watershed moments in that field: October 4, 2011 when Apple’s Siri was launched with… Read More ›
Patrik Pallagi and Steve Fuller on the History and Future of Disability—The Drive to Overcome It and the Conception of Humanity Behind It
Patrik Pallagi: Dear Professor Fuller, I am writing with the intention to congratulate you on your work and speeches that has both inspired and amazed young students like me. In addition, I’d like to ask if I could perhaps entertain… Read More ›
Can Post-Truth Provide an Adequate Ethics for Social Epistemology? A Dialogue Between Gary Abbott and Steve Fuller
Gary Abbott The reason for my email concerns problems of morals. I am sure that you face this question a lot, but it is something that bothers me, and I can’t seem to square it so would appreciate your insight/reflections… Read More ›
The Right To Know: Epistemic Rights and Why We Need Them: Audio Interview, Lani Watson and Daniella Meehan
Lani Watson’s The Right To Know: Epistemic Rights and Why We Need Them (Routledge 2021) “… provides the first comprehensive examination of the right to know and other epistemic rights: rights to goods such as information, knowledge and truth.” In… Read More ›
Joseph Agassi Webinars: “The Global Crisis Today” and “Fallibilism in Medicine”
The SERRC enjoys a special relationship with Joseph Agassi having published Academic Agonies and How to Avoid Them: Advice to Young People on Their Way to Academic Careers (2020). And, so, we present the following webinars: “The Global Crisis Today”… Read More ›
Interview With Steve Fuller on State 2.0, Tikhon Sysoev
Interview With Steve Fuller on State 2.0 The following interview with Steve Fuller, conducted by Tikhon Sysoev, appeared in the 23 November 2020 edition of Expert, the Russian equivalent of Economist magazine. The interview appeared under the title: “Стив Фуллер:… Read More ›
An Interview with Steve Fuller on Conspiracy Theories and Post-Truth, Chantelle Gordon
I am a year 12 high school student from Sydney, Australia. For one of my subjects, ‘Society and Culture’, I am currently completing a large scale major work, called a ‘Personal Interest Project’. For this project I have decided to… Read More ›
Social Morphodynamics, Albert Doja on video
Here is the full video of Albert Doja’s lecture at Harvard University, “Social Morphodynamics: Mapping Identity Transformations, Cultural Encounters, and the Evolution of Core Values.” A written version of the lecture appeared earlier this week on our site. Some of… Read More ›
Twelve Questions on Transhumanism’s Place in the Western Philosophical Tradition
The following are a set of questions concerning the place of transhumanism in the Western philosophical tradition that Robert Frodeman’s Philosophy 5250 class at the University of North Texas posed to Steve Fuller, who met with the class via Skype… Read More ›