Misinformation has hampered action on climate change for decades. Climate researchers who have been concerned with the dissemination of climate science in the public sphere know the problem well. Not least of all because it often confronts them directly, in… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›