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Censorship in Science: Deeper Processes, Brian Martin
When submissions to scientific journals are rejected due to bias or service to vested interests, this is a form of censorship. But are there other, deeper, factors causing certain views to be excluded from research agendas? … [please read below… Read More ›
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SERRC: Volume 13, Issue 2, 1-90, February 2024
Volume 13, Issue 2, 1-90, February 2024 ❧ Ingold, Tim. 2024. “On Being Tasked with the Problem of Inhabiting the Page.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 13 (2): 1–7. ❧ Bollen, Caroline and Colin Marshall. 2024. “Empathy vs. Compassion:… Read More ›
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What is an Idol? A Response to Eric Steinhart, Bernard N. Wills
Eric Steinhart has kindly responded (2024) to my review (2023) of Believing in Dawkins and has responded to a number of criticisms I have made. For this I would like to thank him. I cannot address every point he raises… Read More ›
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The End of Theory? A Reply to Susen, Michael Strand
I thank Simon Susen for the opportunity for further engagement on his important contribution. If I can humbly claim to have at least partially inspired him to ask the immensely generative questions he offers in his rejoinder (Susen 2023), then… Read More ›
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Putting Hate Speech at Its Place: A Political-Epistemological Perspective, Massimiliano Badino
The pollution of our epistemic environments is a pressing problem. The largest share of our belief system is assembled through interactions with other agents mediated by digital epistemic environments such as social networks, forums, news websites, and the like. Recently,… Read More ›
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Follow the Signs: Taking Direction from Semiotics on How to Identify Experts, Jamie Carlin Watson
Abstract The recognition problem—or, the difficulty of non-experts to appropriately distinguish experts from cleverly disguised fakes—is a perennial problem in expertise studies. And the more we learn about human cognition and the social distribution of knowledge, the more intractable the… Read More ›
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The Two Cultures of Interdisciplinarity, Karen Kastenhofer
In 1959, the British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow held his famous Rede lecture on “The Two Cultures” (Snow 1961[1959]), juxtaposing the intellectual cultures of science on the one hand and of the humanities and arts (or, more precisely,… Read More ›
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Review: The Science-Music Borderlands, Atoosa Afshari
The Science-Music Borderlands, edited by Elizabeth H. Margulis, Psyche Loui and Deirdre Loughridge, offers a fresh perspective and broadened sense of music studies. The book splits into four parts, each with several chapters, which tackle significant myths in music science…. Read More ›
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The Dominant Ordinary Use of ‘Conspiracy Theory’ is Narrow: A Reply to Censon, Scott Hill
April 25, 2024
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A Reply to Watson’s “Follow the Signs: Taking Direction from Semiotics on How to Identify Experts”, Charles Lassiter
April 23, 2024
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An Interdisciplinary Drama: Conspiracist Philosophers versus Conspiring Social Scientists? Francesco Censon
April 16, 2024
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Censorship in Science: Deeper Processes, Brian Martin
March 6, 2024
Books and Book Reviews ›
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Review: Lisa Herzog’s Citizen Knowledge, Alfred Archer
April 18, 2024
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What is an Idol? A Response to Eric Steinhart, Bernard N. Wills
February 23, 2024