Misinformation has hampered action on climate change for decades. Climate researchers who have been concerned with the dissemination of climate science in the public sphere know the problem well. Not least of all because it often confronts them directly, in… Read More ›
Bruno Latour’s Down to Earth explores the way in which global political action today embodies multiple contradictions in our relationship to land. More precisely, our relationship to that part of the Earth that comprises the crust and the atmosphere, where… Read More ›
In “The Quinean Assumption: The Case for Science as Public Reason” (2019), Cristóbal Bellolio examines an aspect that has often, and surprisingly, been overlooked in the extensive literature on public reason and political liberalism: the role of scientific arguments in… Read More ›
Author Information: Brian Martin, University of Wollongong, bmartin@uow.edu.au. Martin, Brian. “Technology and Evil.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8, no. 2 (2019): 1-14. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-466 Humans cause immense damage to each other… Read More ›
Author Information: Eric Kerr, National University of Singapore, eric.kerr@nus.edu.sg. Kerr, Eric. “On Thinking With Catastrophic Times.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8, no. 1 (2019): 46-49. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-45Q Reprinted with permission from… Read More ›
Author Information: Steve Fuller, University of Warwick, s.w.fuller@warwick.ac.uk. Fuller, Steve. “Staying Human in the 21st Century Is Harder Than You Might Think.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 12 (2018): 39-42. The pdf of the article gives specific page… Read More ›
Author Information: Raphael Sassower, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, rsasswe@uccs.edu. Sassower, Raphael. “Post-Truths and Inconvenient Facts.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 8 (2018): 47-60. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-40g If nothing else,… Read More ›
Author Information: Alfred Moore, University of York, UK, alfred.moore@york.ac.uk Moore, Alfred. “Transparency and the Dynamics of Trust and Distrust.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 4 (2018), 26-32. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-3W8 Please refer… Read More ›
Author information: Jeroen Van Bouwel, Ghent University, Belgium, jeroen.vanbouwel@ugent.be; Michiel Van Oudheusden, SKC-CEN Belgian Nuclear Research Centre and University of Leuven, Belgium. Van Bouwel, Jeroen and and Michiel Van Oudheusden. “Beyond Consensus? A Reply to Alan Irwin.” Social Epistemology Review… Read More ›
“Knowledge of Climates and Climates of Knowledge”, Amanda Machin, Zeppelin University Image credit: Chris Cheung (Ping Foo), via flickr The changing climate has attracted attention from numerous fields and disciplines. Part of its intrigue lies in the impossibility of boxing… Read More ›