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Alethic or Epistemic? A Reply to Lani Watson, Franca d’Agostini
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 ›
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SERRC: Volume 10, Issue 10, October 2021
Volume 10, Issue 10, October 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Page, Jennifer. 2021. “De-Moralizing Breastfeeding.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (10): 59-67. ❧ Miller, Seumas. 2021. “Reply to Giangiuseppe Pili’s ‘The Missing Dimension—Intelligence and Social Epistemology’.” Social… Read More ›
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De-Moralizing Breastfeeding, Jennifer Page
“Breast is Best.” In places where clean water access is a problem, it is well-established that feeding an infant with human milk rather than formula-feeding saves lives. Yet even in countries that don’t struggle with clean water access, like Switzerland,… Read More ›
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Reply to Giangiuseppe Pili’s “The Missing Dimension—Intelligence and Social Epistemology,” Seumas Miller
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 ›
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What We Know about Producing Ignorance: A Review of Science and the Production of Ignorance: When the Quest for Knowledge Is Thwarted, Fabien Medvecky
Although it may seem to be a paradoxical claim, we know quite a lot about ignorance. In fact, our knowledge and understanding of ignorance is increasing as the burgeoning field of agnotology gains traction. Kourany and Carrier’s book, Science and… Read More ›
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Habit and Performative Privacy, Ari Ezra Waldman
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 ›
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On Anticipatory Epistemic Injustice: Replies to Eric Bayruns García and Trystan S. Goetze, Ji-Young Lee
I am grateful to both Eric Bayruns García and Trystan S. Goetze for their insightful commentaries on my original article, ‘Anticipatory Epistemic Injustice’. In this entry, I pick up on some of their responses to my work … [please read… Read More ›
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Symposium in Honor of Joseph Agassi, Nov 17-18, 2021
Symposium in Honor of Joseph Agassi, Nov 17-18, 2021. Please see the pdf with the schedule. Speakers will include Malachi Hacohen, Nathaniel Laor, Jeremy Shearmur, Bill Berkson, Stefano Gattei, Lydia Amir, Ian Jarvie, Raphael Sassower, Michael Segr, Chen Yehezkeli, Nimrod… Read More ›
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Is Myside Bias Irrational? A Biased Review of The Bias that Divides Us, Neil Levy
The Bias That Divides Us (2021) is about myside bias, the supposed bias whereby we generate and test hypotheses and evaluate evidence in a way that is biased toward our own prior beliefs. Myside bias prevents convergence in beliefs: if… Read More ›
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Towards a Knowledge Socialism: A Digital Sedition, Des Hewitt
It isn’t very often that a book comes along that offers the opportunity to write a review which is facilitated so well by the very logic and structure of the work in question: Knowledge Socialism is an edited and collaborative… Read More ›
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Misinformation and the Limits of Individual Responsibility, Part One, Boyd Millar
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Faith Seeking Understanding: A Reply to Radenovic’s “Philosophy of my Faith,” David Ellis
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De-Moralizing Breastfeeding, Jennifer Page
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A Covid Paradigm? Brian Martin
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