Volume 11, Issue 3, 1-84, March 2022 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ West, Mark D. 2022. “Embodying ‘Necro-Waste’: On Toxic Discourse.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 11 (3): 1-12. ❧ Balla, Bonaventure. 2022. “The Quest for Truth in the… Read More ›
In “A Tension in the Strong Program: The Relation between the Rational and the Social”, Shahram Shahryari (2021) advances the following thesis: In his Strong Program in the sociology of science, David Bloor blames traditional philosophy of science for adopting… Read More ›
Books ❧ Agassi, Joseph. 2020. Academic Agonies and How to Avoid Them: Advice to Young People on Their Way to Academic Careers. Blacksburg, VA: Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective. Volume 9, Issue 10, October 2020 Articles, Replies, and Reviews… Read More ›
In “Reflections on Boundary Work on Social Epistemology”, Hanna Kiri Gunn offers an analysis of the pros and cons of academic boundary work. I argue that this is an aspect of a larger issue, i.e. specifying the most productive organizational… Read More ›
“Boundary work” refers to the practice of establishing and defining research areas, which in part involves locating research questions or topics within particular disciplines. As a consequence, boundary work also involves practices that put boundaries around ourselves as researchers of… Read More ›
Otto Neurath’s (1944) oft-quoted simile about the battered sailors gives a precise depiction of the human condition. Like other animals, humans face constant threats to their survival, but, unlike them, we are not adapted to a particular natural environment in… Read More ›
This year-end reflection will return to the state of social epistemology and how it might go forward in light of the post-truth condition. Its point of departure is threefold. First is the recent assessment made by our field’s ‘honest broker’,… Read More ›
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the publication of Alvin Goldman’s Knowledge in a Social World (Goldman 1999), the editors of the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective have invited me to write an update of my 2013… Read More ›
Author Information: Mark West, University of North Carolina, west@unca.edu, Miika Vähämaa, University of Helsinki, miika.vahamaa@gmail.com West, Mark and Miika Vähämaa. “La Nouvelle Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes: The Analytic and Critical Tendencies in Social Epistemology.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply… Read More ›
Author Information: Finn Collin, University of Copenhagen, collin@hum.ku.dk; David Budtz Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, davidp@hum.ku.dk Collin, Finn and David Budtz Pedersen. “The Science of Science Policy: A Response to Jesper Eckhardt Larsen.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 4, no…. Read More ›