Volume 12, Issue 5, 1-71, May 2023 Symposium on Moti Mizrahi’s For and Against Scientism: Science, Methodology, and the Future of Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022): ❦ Vrahimis, Andreas. 2023. “Algorithmic Opinion Mining and the History of Philosophy: A Response… Read More ›
Lawrence Torcello
Ethical Silence, Moral Framing, and Role of the Humanities against Disinformation: A Final Reply to Pongiglione and Martini, Lawrence Torcello
Venus may once have had an atmosphere more congenial to life than its current greenhouse conditions. This fact is, however, vacant of ethical consequence. We have no cause to believe sentient beings ever lived on Venus, let alone that an… Read More ›
Epistemic Harm, Social Consequences: A Reply to Torcello on Climate Change Disinformation, Francesca Pongiglione and Carlo Martini
The temperatures registered in the summer of 2022 were among the highest on record in Europe, central and eastern China, and North America (ECMWF, ERA5 2022). The summer of 2022 is, however, unlikely to be an exceptional one. Similar heat… Read More ›
SERRC: Volume 11, Issue 9, September 2022
Volume 11, Issue 9, 1-90, September 2022 Podcast Knowledge for Breakfast, Episode 1: “Epistemic Shame and Imposter Syndrome”. Fabien Medvecky and Michiel van Oudheusden. Guest: Chloe Walls. Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Frohock, Richard and Eric Winsberg. 2022. “Expert Opinion,… Read More ›
Climate Change Disinformation and Culpability: A Sympathetic Reply to Pongiglione and Martini, Lawrence Torcello
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 ›
Our Most Viewed Posts, 2020
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 ›
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 ›