Volume 12, Issue 3, 1-65, March 2023 Podcasts ❧ Knowledge for Breakfast, Episode 4: “‘Realizing Knowledge Together’ and Reimagining Academic Futures.” Guest: Jim Collier. Hosts: Fabien Medvecky and Michiel van Oudheusden. Topics: Knowing and academic practice, Social Epistemology Review and… Read More ›
Lada V. Shipovalova
Being at the Crossroads: On the Mission of the Social Philosopher of Science | Review of Kasavin’s A Social Philosophy of Science, Lada V. Shipovalova and Yulia V. Shaposhnikova
The work of a philosopher of science, just as any other cognitive and social activity, can and should be accompanied by reflexivity. This accompaniment provides an opportunity to think oneself in the place of the Other, to step constructively beyond… Read More ›
Clarity, Value Conflict, and Academic Politics: Weber’s “Science as a Vocation” a Hundred Years Later, Joshua Rust and Steven Smallpage
Weber’s is an investigation into the nature of the scientist’s calling or vocation, given the disenchantment of the world. Weber notes what most of the students in his audience already appreciate—that this disenchantment necessarily precludes historically influential characterizations of the… Read More ›
Public Science Communication: Notes on the Reality and the Ideal, Lada V. Shipovalova and Yulia V. Shaposhnikova
An ongoing discussion and its emerging provocations and conflicting interpretations indicates, perhaps more than anything else, the significance of a topic or a text. Such a text or topic brings further into focus prominent contemporary issues which require serious reconsideration…. Read More ›