Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies is an easy book for me to review. Why do I make such an audacious statement at the start of this review? Because this book is inextricably linked to the last two books I… Read More ›
Des Hewitt
SERRC: Volume 10, Issue 10, October 2021
Volume 10, Issue 10, October 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Page, Jennifer. 2021. “De-Moralizing Breastfeeding.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (10): 59-67. ❧ Miller, Seumas. 2021. “Reply to Giangiuseppe Pili’s ‘The Missing Dimension—Intelligence and Social Epistemology’.” Social… Read More ›
Towards a Knowledge Socialism: A Digital Sedition, Des Hewitt
It isn’t very often that a book comes along that offers the opportunity to write a review which is facilitated so well by the very logic and structure of the work in question: Knowledge Socialism is an edited and collaborative… Read More ›
SERRC: Volume 10, Issue 8, August 2021
Volume 10, Issue 8, August 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Richmond, Sheldon. 2021. “Open Letter to Markus Gabriel: A Review of The Power of Art and The Meaning of Thought.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (8): 55-62…. Read More ›
Enhancing Human Existence: Mercer and Trothen’s Religion and the Technological Future, Des Hewitt
Without intending to be distasteful, let alone insensitive, it seems fitting that the publication of Religion and the Technological Future: An Introduction to Biohacking, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism (2021) by Calvin Mercer and Tracy J. Trothen should take place during… Read More ›
SERRC: Volume 10, Issue 6, June 2021
Volume 10, Issue 6, June 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Lynch, William T. 2021. “Zombie Epistemology: Or, I Ain’t Gonna Work on Zoltan’s Farm, Either.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (6): 1-19. Part I, https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-5Ur; Part II,… Read More ›
The Deadly Consequences of Wish Fulfilment: Anna Elisabetta Galeotti’s Political Self-Deception, Des Hewitt
At the time of what was perhaps distastefully called ‘Gulf War 2’ (sounding much like a video game sequel) in 2002, a charge of ‘excessive hubris’ was levelled against Tony Blair, then Prime Minister of the UK, by Dr David… Read More ›
SERRC: Volume 10, Issue 5, May 2021
Volume 10, Issue 5, May 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Earle, Joshua. 2021. “On Academic Elitism, Implicit Racism, and Social Media.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (5): 66-75. https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-5T3. ❧ Bleicher, Alena. 2021. “Epistemic Humility and the… Read More ›
A Review of Steve Fuller’s A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition, Des Hewitt
When writing my last review of the prequel to this latest book by Steve Fuller, Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game (2018), I was on the Greek Island of Zakynthos. I said what a surreal experience that was, as we… Read More ›
SERRC, Volume 10, Issue 3, March 2021
Volume 10, Issue 3, March 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Schwengerer, Lukas. 2021. “Revisiting Online Intellectual Virtues.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (3): 38-45. ❧ Catala, Amandine. 2021. “Echo Chambers, Epistemic Injustice, and Ignorance.” Social Epistemology Review… Read More ›