In Vices of the Mind: From the Intellectual to the Political, I reflect on the claim that personal qualities like closed-mindedness, prejudice and wishful thinking are epistemic vices. This is not, in itself, a controversial claim. The interesting question is:… Read More ›
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Exploring Epistemic Vices: A Review of Quassim Cassam’s Vices of the Mind, Benjamin Beatson, Valerie Joly Chock, Jamie Lang, Jonathan Matheson
In Vices of the Mind, Cassam provides an accessible, engaging, and timely introduction to the nature of epistemic vices and what we can do about them. Cassam provides an account of epistemic vices and explores three broad types of epistemic… Read More ›
Vice Ontology, Quassim Cassam
Author Information: Quassim Cassam, University of Warwick, UK, q.cassam@warwick.ac.uk Cassam, Quassim. “Vice Ontology.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 6, no. 11 (2017): 20-27. The pdf of the article gives specific page numbers. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-3QE Please refer to: Kidd, I., “Capital Epistemic Vices.”… Read More ›
The Organized Skepticism of Science: A Review of Bauer, Sheldon Krimsky
Author Information: Sheldon Krimsky, Lenore Stern Professor of Humanities and Social Science, Tufts University, Sheldon.Krimsky@tufts.edu Krimsky, Sheldon. 2013. “The Organized Skepticism of Science: A Review of Bauer.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 2 (4) 10-12. The PDF of the… Read More ›
Reply to Ron Westrum, Henry Bauer
Author Information: Henry Bauer, Virginia Tech, hhbauer@vt.edu Bauer, Henry. 2012. Reply to Ron Westrum. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 1 (12): 21-23. The PDF of the article gives specific page numbers. Shortlink: http://wp.me/p1Bfg0-vb I am quite gratified by Ron… Read More ›