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• The Individual as Elusive Quarry in the History of Philosophy: A Response to Radenovic, Steve Fuller

  By SERRC on August 16, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Ljiljana Radenovic’s (2021) defense of the Desert Fathers of early Christianity as providing a basis for a ‘post-Enlightenment ethics’ is perhaps most provocative in terms of her framing of the argument, which is by way of a critique of modern… Read More ›

• Vygotsky’s Janus-Faced Theory of Language: A Reply to Drain’s “Tomasello, Vygotsky, and the Phylogenesis of Mind”, Kyrill Potapov

  By SERRC on August 12, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  In his lucid and helpful reply, Chris Drain (2021) clarifies some of his views and aims and offers pertinent criticisms of my own. Drain refocuses my forays into Pittsburgh Hegelianism onto Vygotsky’s own thought. He rightly notes that Brandom’s account… Read More ›

• A Post-Enlightenment Ethics of the Desert Fathers, Ljiljana Radenovic

  By SERRC on August 9, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  For over three centuries, Enlightenment ethics have been central to philosophical debates on morality, shaping how we think about moral actions and ourselves. Instead of thinking of the moral person as a virtuous person who leads a good life, we… Read More ›

• Social Conventions and Personal Confidences: Mario Luis Small’s Someone To Talk To: How Networks Matter in Practice, Emma Craddock

  By SERRC on August 5, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  If I asked you who you would talk to about your personal problems, you might suggest a close friend, partner, or family member. This seems fairly straight forward on the surface; confiding in someone about our problems requires a level… Read More ›

• Critique Equals Suffering Plus Society? Towards a New Approach to Critique, Johannes Angermuller

  By SERRC on August 3, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  While science is typically expected to be neutral and objective, critical approaches have their established place in the social sciences. All social scientists are aware of the critical difference that their research can or should make in society, and some… Read More ›

• SERRC: Volume 10, Issue 7, July 2021

  By SERRC on July 30, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Volume 10, Issue 7, July 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Pili, Giangiuseppe. 2021. “The Missing Dimension—Intelligence and Social Epistemology: A Reply to Miller’s ‘Rethinking the Just Intelligence Theory of National Security Intelligence Collection and Analysis’.” Social Epistemology Review and… Read More ›

• The Intricacies of Ideology and Ignorance: A Reply to Mason, Hilkje C. Hänel

  By SERRC on July 28, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  In response to my article “Who’s to Blame? Hermeneutical Misfire, Forward-Looking Responsibility, and Collective Accountability” (2021a), Elinor Mason (2021) raises a couple of insightful remarks. I want to focus on two … [please read below the rest of the article]…. Read More ›

• On Anticipatory-Epistemic Injustice and the Distinctness of Epistemic-Injustice Phenomena, Eric Bayruns García

  By SERRC on July 26, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The phenomena that compose the epistemic-injustice literature have rapidly proliferated since Miranda Fricker’s Epistemic Injustice was published in 2007. The epistemic-oriented approach to analyzing systemic-identity-based injustice that feminist epistemologists and critical race theorists developed (Alcoff 1999; Code 1991; Collins 1990;… Read More ›

• Do Collective Epistemic Virtues have to be Scaled-Up Individual Virtues? Mandi Astola

  By SERRC on July 22, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Can groups of people possess epistemic virtues? There has been some attention to this question in recent years in social epistemology and ethics. Interestingly, most defenses and criticisms of collective virtues so far have focused on proving or disproving that… Read More ›

• Response to Franca d’Agostini’s “Alethic Rights: Preliminaries of an Inquiry into the Power of Truth”, Lani Watson

  By SERRC on July 19, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Franca d’Agostini (2021) proposes, explicates, and defends six alethic rights corresponding to six different aspects of the ‘need for truth’. In addition, she outlines the underlying theory of truth that grounds these rights, drawing together key ideas from the diverse… Read More ›

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