Liam Kofi Bright and Remco Heesen (2023) seek to identify a more pragmatic and fruitful criterion for demarcating academic from commercial research. Having described the limitations of criteria based on epistemic success they propose adopting the Mertonian social norm of… Read More ›
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The Problem of Method in African Philosophy, Bruce Janz
Author Information: Bruce Janz, University of Central Florida, bruce.janz@ucf.edu Janz, Bruce. “The Problem of Method in African Philosophy.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 8 (2018): 1-7. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-3ZC Edwin… Read More ›
Feyerabend and the Cranks: A Response to Shaw, Massimo Pigliucci
Author Information: Massimo Pigliucci, City College of New York, massimo@platofootnote.org Pigliucci, Massimo. “Feyerabend and the Cranks: A Response to Shaw.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 6, no. 7 (2016): 1-6. The PDF of the article gives specific page numbers…. Read More ›
Feyerabend and the Cranks: On Demarcation, Epistemic Virtues, and Astrology, Jamie Shaw
Author Information: Jamie Shaw, Western University, jshaw222@uwo.ca Shaw, Jamie. “Feyerabend and the Cranks: On Demarcation, Epistemic Virtues, and Astrology.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 6, no. 3 (2017): 74-88. The PDF of the article gives specific page numbers. Shortlink:… Read More ›
The Problem of Demarcation Isn’t Going Away: On the Legitimation of the Social Sciences in Light of Popper, Cruickshank, and Reed, Raphael Sassower and Seif Jensen
Author Information: Raphael Sassower, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, rsassowe@uccs.edu; Seif Jensen, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, sjensen4@uccs.edu Sassower, Raphael and Seif Jensen. “The Problem of Demarcation Isn’t Going Away: On the Legitimation of the Social Sciences in Light of… Read More ›