Guy Axtell, a member of the SERRC and co-editor of Epistemic Paternalism: Conceptions, Justifications and Implications (Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society), has a paper “Cultivating Doxastic Responsibility: Ameliorative Epistemological Projects and the Ethics of Knowledge” available in a special… Read More ›
Epistemic Paternalism
“They” are Back (and still want to cure everyone): Psychologists’ Latest Bid to Curtail Public Epistemology, Part Two, Lee Basham
Wagner-Egger et al. (2019) continue to defend a project of pathologizing and “curing” the public of doubts about the reliability of government, media and corporate statements and actions. They envision a mass psychological engineering project to curtail rational social epistemology, one particularly, but not limited to, targeting children in public schools. The… Read More ›
“They” are Back (and still want to cure everyone): Psychologists’ Latest Bid to Curtail Public Epistemology, Part One, Lee Basham
Wagner-Egger et al. (2019) continue to defend a project of pathologizing and “curing” the public of doubts about the reliability of government, media and corporate statements and actions. They envision a mass psychological engineering project to curtail rational social epistemology, one particularly, but not limited to, targeting children in public schools. The… Read More ›
Call for Chapter Proposals: Epistemic Paternalism Reconsidered: Conceptions, Justifications and Implications
Call for Chapter Proposals: Epistemic Paternalism Reconsidered: Conceptions, Justifications and Implications Abstract Submission Deadline: March 15, 2019 This call for chapter proposals invites scholars (Ph.D.’s and Ph.D. candidates) to submit original or revised proposals pertaining to epistemic paternalism, broadly construed,… Read More ›