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Seumas Miller on Knowing-How and Joint Abilities, Yuri Cath
Seumas Miller (2020) develops a rich set of interconnected views on abilities, joint abilities, knowing-how, joint knowing-how, epistemic abilities, joint epistemic abilities, and collective knowledge. As this list indicates, Miller covers quite a lot of ground in his paper, and… Read More ›
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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 ›
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SERRC, Volume 9, Issue 11, November 2020
Volume 9, Issue 11, November 2020 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Park, Seungbae. 2020. “The Appearance and the Reality of a Scientific Theory.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 9 (11): 59-69. ❧ Mason, Sharon E. 2020. “Closing the Hermeneutical… Read More ›
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The Appearance and the Reality of a Scientific Theory, Seungbae Park
Abstract Scientific realists claim that the best of successful rival theories is (approximately) true. Relative realists object that we cannot make the absolute judgment that a theory is successful, and that we can only make the relative judgment that it… Read More ›
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Closing the Hermeneutical Gap in STEM Education: A Reply to Lawrence Torcello, Sharon E. Mason
Education has a plurality of aims, one of which is to increase knowledge and decrease ignorance. The relation between knowledge and ignorance, however, turns out to be surprisingly complicated. Sometimes ignorance is actively held in place by various forces that… Read More ›
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Epistemic Elitism, Scepticism, and Diachronic Epistemic Reasons: A Rejoinder to Ranalli on Worldview Disagreement, Kirk Lougheed
Introduction I’m honoured by Chris Ranalli’s (2020) thought-provoking response to my recent article, “The Epistemic Benefits of Worldview Disagreement” (2020a), which is an expansion of ideas found in my book, The Epistemic Benefits of Disagreement (2020b). I’m also grateful to… Read More ›
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On Skipper’s Humility Heuristic, Marco Meyer
In ‘The Humility Heuristic Or: People Worth Trusting Admit to What They Don’t Know,’ Mattias Skipper defends a heuristic for identifying trustworthy people. In slogan form, the Humility Heuristic says that people worth trusting admit to what they don’t know…. Read More ›
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Some Devils in the Details: Methodological Concerns Regarding Mizrahi’s “The Scientism Debate”, Amanda Bryant
“The Scientism Debate” in Summary In his article “The Scientism Debate: A Battle for the Soul of Philosophy?” (2019), Moti Mizrahi sets out to empirically test two hypotheses that putatively explain why philosophers find scientism threatening. The hypotheses are: H1:… Read More ›
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Ideality and Cognitive Development: Further Comments on Azeri’s “The Match of Ideals,” Chris Drain
In his recent article, Siyaves Azeri (2020) responds to “Wigner’s riddle,” i.e., how it is that mathematics can be so “unreasonably” effective at explaining physical law, especially considering how so many advanced mathematical concepts—unlike those of elementary arithmetic and geometry—originate so… Read More ›
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On Reality of Thinking: A Response to Chris Drain’s “Ideality and Cognitive Development”, Siyaves Azeri
January 12, 2021
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In Defense of Relative Realism: A Reply to Park, Moti Mizrahi
January 5, 2021
Articles ›
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What is Right and Wrong with Social Engineering? Alexandra A. Argamakova
December 30, 2020
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‘Caliphate’ and the Problem of Testimony, Beba Cibralic
December 29, 2020
Books and Book Reviews ›
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Reflections on Academic Agonies and How to Avoid Them by Joseph Agassi, Kendall Giles
December 31, 2020
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Tracing the Ideologies of Vision, Adam Riggio
December 19, 2020