The list below represents the eight most viewed pieces published on the SERRC in 2020. These pieces reflect the extraordinary range of genres, topics, and authors we have the great privilege to support. In one case, our readers referred to… Read More ›
Lawrence Torcello
Closing the Hermeneutical Gap in STEM Education: A Reply to Lawrence Torcello, Sharon E. Mason
Education has a plurality of aims, one of which is to increase knowledge and decrease ignorance. The relation between knowledge and ignorance, however, turns out to be surprisingly complicated. Sometimes ignorance is actively held in place by various forces that… Read More ›
SERRC, Volume 9, Issue 9, September 2020
Volume 9, Issue 9, September 2020 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Pittard, John. 2020. “The Epistemic Challenge of Religious Disagreement: Responding to Matheson.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 9 (9): 55-64. ❧ Abbate, Cheryl. 2020. “Nonculpably Ignorant Meat Eaters… Read More ›
Science Denial, Pseudoskepticism, and Philosophical Deficits Undermining Public Understanding of Science: A Response to Sharon E. Mason, Lawrence Torcello
In this reply, I examine the relationship between science denialism and education. Specifically I want to address how the mode of science denial I identify as pseudoskepticism relates to information deficits of a philosophical nature … [please read below the… Read More ›