Volume 12, Issue 11, 1-100, November 2023 ❧ Bollen, Caroline. 2023. “Empathy as a Virtue: A Response to Marshall.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 12 (11): 94–100. ❧ Wills, Bernard N. 2023. “Believing in Dawkins: A Review of Steinhart.”… Read More ›
Des Hewitt
“From Divinity to Bovinity” and the Square Route of Orthogonality: A Review of Fuller’s Back to the University’s Future, Des Hewitt
I always seem to be reviewing books for the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective while on holiday. My last review was written while on the beaches of South Goa, India. That book was by Michael Gibson and was about… Read More ›
SERRC: Volume 12, Issue 8, 1-65, August 2023
Volume 12, Issue 8, 1-65, August 2023 ❧ Hewitt, Des. 2023. “Requiem for Expertise.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 12 (8): 1-9. ❧ Walker, Jesse. 2023. “Defining ‘Conspiracy Theory’: A Reply to Lee Basham.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply… Read More ›
Requiem for Expertise, Des Hewitt
It is perhaps an understatement to say that expertise has undergone something of an assault in recent years. Under the post-truth condition, experts and their knowledge have been under attack from politicians, commentators, and ironically those who oppose politicians and… Read More ›
SERRC: Volume 12, Issue 1, January 2023
Volume 12, Issue 1, 1-77, January 2023 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Riggio, Adam. 2023.
A Match and Some Gasoline, Des Hewitt
Michael Gibson’s Paper Belt on Fire: How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University is inextricably linked to my own interests: the university and its purpose. You might think that I will find it an easy book to review…. Read More ›
Response to Hill: Conspiracy Theorizing, Ordinary Usage and Integrity, Lee Basham
Scott Hill’s most recent defense of the Le Monde declaration against conspiracy theory is welcome.[1] It’s an enjoyable and thoughtful piece with a high spirit to it. He also shares a disturbing revelation. Most important, it represents another opportunity to… Read More ›
SERRC: Volume 11, Issue 11, November 2022
Volume 11, Issue 11, 1-71, November 2022 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Gonnerman, Chad and Stephen Crowley. 2022. “Can We Tell Whether Philosophy is Special?” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 11 (11): 1-11. ❧ Gopal, William and Federica Russo…. Read More ›
Love in a Cold Climate, Des Hewitt
Sociology is often defined as the study of the relationship between the individual, the economy and the state, and the institutions and cultures that arise as a consequence of this relationship.[1] What holds this relationship together is usually called the… Read More ›
Substantive Disagreement in the Le Monde Debate and Beyond: Replies to Duetz and Dentith, Basham, and Hewitt, Scott Hill
I agree with much of what J.C.M. Duetz and M R.X. Dentith have to say in “Reconciling Conceptual Confusions in the Le Monde Debate on Conspiracy Theories” (2022). They have given me a lot to think about and have caused… Read More ›