Synthese Topical Collection on “Epistemic Vices: From the Individual to the Collective” Deadline: 31st August 2022 Guest Editors: Robin McKenna (University of Liverpool) and Ian James Kidd (University of Nottingham) Topical Collection Description: A central theme of contemporary vice epistemology… Read More ›
Lani Watson
SERRC: Volume 11, Issue 1, January 2022
Volume 11, Issue 1, 1-49, January 2022 Audio Interview ❦ Watson, Lani. 2021. “Interview on The Right To Know: Epistemic Rights and Why We Need Them.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective interviewed by Daniella Meehan. Recorded 15 December. Three… Read More ›
The Right To Know: Epistemic Rights and Why We Need Them: Audio Interview, Lani Watson and Daniella Meehan
Lani Watson’s The Right To Know: Epistemic Rights and Why We Need Them (Routledge 2021) “… provides the first comprehensive examination of the right to know and other epistemic rights: rights to goods such as information, knowledge and truth.” In… Read More ›
SERRC: Volume 10, Issue 11, November 2021
Volume 10, Issue 11, 1-66, November 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Scotland-Stewart, Laurel. 2021. “Being Through the Body: A Reply to Mark Gilks’s ‘Narrating Being through Phenomena’.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (11): 60-66. ❧ Briggle, Adam…. Read More ›
Alethic or Epistemic? A Reply to Lani Watson, Franca d’Agostini
Lani Watson’s “Response” (2021a) to my article (2021) on alethic rights (AR), the rights related to truth, provides an extremely helpful contribution to AR theory. The exchange with Watson is particularly interesting as she has extensively elaborated on a similar… Read More ›
SERRC: Volume 10, Issue 7, July 2021
Volume 10, Issue 7, July 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Pili, Giangiuseppe. 2021. “The Missing Dimension—Intelligence and Social Epistemology: A Reply to Miller’s ‘Rethinking the Just Intelligence Theory of National Security Intelligence Collection and Analysis’.” Social Epistemology Review and… Read More ›
Response to Franca d’Agostini’s “Alethic Rights: Preliminaries of an Inquiry into the Power of Truth”, Lani Watson
Franca d’Agostini (2021) proposes, explicates, and defends six alethic rights corresponding to six different aspects of the ‘need for truth’. In addition, she outlines the underlying theory of truth that grounds these rights, drawing together key ideas from the diverse… Read More ›