The year 2018 is coming to an end and I, frankly, could not be happier. A time of continuing upheaval, the year began with a durable pessimism, and its ending is tolerable to the democratically-minded only because of those few… Read More ›
History of Philosophy
Algorithmic Opinion Mining and the History of Philosophy: A Response to Mizrahi’s For and Against Scientism, Andreas Vrahimis
As Moti Mizrahi’s editorial introduction points out, For and Against Scientism ‘arises from an exchange between several scholars over the pages of the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective’ (Mizrahi 2022, 18) in response to Mizrahi (2019). Mizrahi (2019) defended… Read More ›
The Individual as Elusive Quarry in the History of Philosophy: A Response to Radenovic, Steve Fuller
Ljiljana Radenovic’s (2021) defense of the Desert Fathers of early Christianity as providing a basis for a ‘post-Enlightenment ethics’ is perhaps most provocative in terms of her framing of the argument, which is by way of a critique of modern… Read More ›
The Place of the Notion of the Weird in Today’s Thinking, Lyudmila Markova
Author Information: Lyudmila Markova, Russian Academy of Sciences, l.a.markova@yandex.ru. Markova, Lyudmila. “The Place of the Notion of the Weird in Today’s Thinking.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8, no. 5 (2019): 48-51. The pdf of the article gives specific… Read More ›
Notes on the Rhetoric of Trolling, Part 2, Bernard Wills
Author Information: Bernard Wills, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. bwills@grenfell.mun.ca. Wills, Bernard. “Notes on the Rhetoric of Trolling.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8, no. 5 (2019): 1-10. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Due… Read More ›
Will We Ever Have a Genuine African Philosophy?, John Lamola
Author Information: John Lamola, University of Fort Hare, jlamola@mweb.co.za. Lamola, John. “Will We Ever Have a Genuine African Philosophy.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8, no. 1 (2019): 39-45. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-45K … Read More ›
Africa in Van Norden’s Philosophical Manifesto and King’s Multicultural Canon, John Lamola
Author Information: John Lamola, Fort Hare University, jlamola@mweb.co.za. Lamola, John. “Africa in Van Norden’s Philosophical Manifesto and King’s Multicultural Canon.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8, no. 1 (2019): 30-35. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-45v … Read More ›
Reviewing Nolen Gertz’s Nihilism and Technology, Frank Scalambrino
Author Information: Frank Scalambrino, Duquesne University, franklscalambrino@gmail.com. Scalambrino, Frank. “Reviewing Nolen Gertz’s Nihilism and Technology.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 12 (2018): 22-28. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-44B There are three (3) parts… Read More ›
Between Forteana and Skepticism, Matthew R. X. Dentith
Author Information: Matthew R. X. Dentith, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Bucharest, m.dentith@episto.org. Dentith, Matthew R. X. “Between Forteana and Skepticism: A Review of Bernard Wills’ Believing Weird Things.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 11 (2018):… Read More ›
“China” As the West’s Other in World Philosophy, Steve Fuller
Author Information: Steve Fuller, University of Warwick, s.w.fuller@warwick.ac.uk. Fuller, Steve. “‘China’ As the West’s Other in World Philosophy.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 11 (2018): 1-11. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-42x This essay… Read More ›