The list below provides the articles, replies, and reviews most viewed on the month of their initial posting in 2021. We invite you to read a sample of the exceptional range of contributions that the SERRC receives. We hope you… Read More ›
Brian Martin
SERRC: Volume 10, Issue 9, September 2021
Volume 10, Issue 9, September 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Harris, Randy Allen. 2021. “X Marks the Spot: An Appreciative Response to Morales’s Review of Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies and Issues and Methods.” Social Epistemology… Read More ›
A Covid Paradigm? Brian Martin
Is it plausible or useful to talk of the main response to the Covid pandemic as being a paradigm? To find out, it’s worth exploring key elements of the concept of paradigm as applied outside of science … [please read… Read More ›
SERRC: Volume 10, Issue 7, July 2021
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 ›
Covid Information Struggles, Brian Martin
Some viewpoints about COVID-19 are being censored, especially by tech companies such as Facebook and Google. Some of those being censored are calling foul. To understand more about struggles over information about Covid, it is useful to look at tactics… Read More ›
Commentary on Brian Martin’s “Tactics Against Scheming Diseases,” Sue Curry Jansen
Brian Martin’s backfire model provides a recipe for activists to respond to actions that violate established norms and are publicly perceived as unjust or extreme. It involves situations where disclosure of an offending act causes a public outcry, which fuels… Read More ›
Science the Corporate Way: A Review of Sergio Sismondo’s Ghost-Managed Medicine, Brian Martin
Imagine receiving an invitation to be an author of a paper, intended for publication in a leading journal. The paper has several authors; you are listed as second author. Along with the invitation comes a copy of the completed paper,… Read More ›
Comment on Martin’s Review of Hoffman, Sal Restivo
In the wake of Kant and his critics I think we can assume with calm certainty that we do not and cannot have access to a thing as such in any form. And in the wake of Ryle and others… Read More ›
Do We See Icons or Reality? A Review of Donald Hoffman’s The Case Against Reality, Brian Martin
Imagine looking at a computer desktop. You see various icons that you can modify, move around, stick into folders and delete. The desktop is a type of reality. If you wanted, you could formulate an ontology and epistemology, or laws… Read More ›
Constructivism Versus Clear Thinking? Brian Martin
Is the constructivist analysis of science a hindrance to clear thinking, in particular clear thinking about the politics of science? […] This question arose from my discussions with Alan Sokal, who expressed his view that constructivism does indeed hinder clear… Read More ›