The connections between echo chambers, on the one hand, and epistemic injustice and ignorance, on the other hand, are important to identify and theorize, and have indeed started to draw the attention of philosophers working on these issues (Nguyen 2020;… Read More ›
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Echo Chambers and Crisis Epistemology: A Reply to Santos, Benjamin Elzinga
Belief polarization, misinformation, and distrust in scientific expertise are on the rise in democracies across the globe. These worrying trends have been accompanied by some new, or at least newly appropriated, phrases to describe them. The spread of misinformation is… Read More ›
Reconsidering Dismissive Incomprehension—Its Relation to Epistemic Injustices, Its Damaging Nature, and a Research Agenda: A Reply to Cull, Manuel Padilla Cruz
Matthew J. Cull (2019) has recently identified dismissive incomprehension and described it as an epistemically demolishing verbal action. It consists of a (fake) expression of ignorance or non-understanding of some information by a receiver who happens to be in a… Read More ›
Against Ideal Theory Ignorance, Susan Dieleman
Author Information: Susan Dieleman, University of Southern Illinois, Edwardsville, sdielem@siue.edu. Dieleman, Susan. “Against Ideal Theory Ignorance.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 9, no. 5 (2019): 11-15. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-48M Daniel… Read More ›
A Critical Catalogue of Ignorance, Nadja El Kassar
Author Information: Nadja El Kassar, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, nadja.elkassar@gess.ethz.ch. El Kassar, Nadja. “A Critical Catalogue of Ignorance: A Reply to Patrick Bondy.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8, no. 2 (2019): 49-51. The pdf of the article gives specific page… Read More ›
The Irreducibility of Ignorance, Nadja El Kassar
Author Information: Nadja El Kassar, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, nadja.elkassar@gess.ethz.ch. El Kassar, Nadja. “The Irreducibility of Ignorance: A Reply to Peels.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8, no. 2 (2019): 31-38. The pdf of the article gives specific page references…. 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 ›
Exploring the Boundaries of Ignorance, Rik Peels
Author Information: Rik Peels, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, mail@rikpeels.nl. Peels, Rik. “Exploring the Boundaries of Ignorance: Its Nature and Accidental Features.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8, no. 1 (2019): 10-18. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-456 … Read More ›
Knowledge and Ignorance, Theoretical and Practical, Patrick Bondy
Author Information: Patrick Bondy, Wichita State University, patrick.bondy@wichita.edu. Bondy, Patrick. “Knowledge and Ignorance, Theoretical and Practical.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 12 (2018): 9-14. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-44n In “What Ignorance Really… Read More ›
Yes, There Is Such a Thing as Conceptual Competence Injustice, Derek Anderson
Author Information: Derek Anderson, Boston University, derek.e.anderson@gmail.com Anderson, Derek. “Yes, There Is Such a Thing as Conceptual Competence Injustice.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 1 (2018): 26-35. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-3SL Please refer to:… Read More ›