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 ›
Remarkably, with a dash of amusement, the answer to the question posed in the title is “yes”. The irony of the Le Monde declaration lives on. Let’s turn our thoughts to plagiarism. Of course, we need to take plagiarism and… Read More ›
Volume 12, Issue 2, 1-56, February 2023 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Hazan, Haim and Raquel Romberg. 2023. “‘Suicide Cultures’: A Contradiction in Terms?” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 12 (2): 1-4. ❧ Desmond, Hugh. 2023. “Expanding on Status… Read More ›
As the African proverb says, until the Lion tells the story, the glory goes to the hunter. — Daisy B. Herndon As I understand, the Lion was needlessly assassinated, and the hunter thought the hero.[1] Epistemology studies the acquisition and… Read More ›
Volume 12, Issue 1, 1-77, January 2023 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Riggio, Adam. 2023.
“Do Crimes, Save Lives.” —Raoul Wallenberg Raoul Wallenberg famously wrote, “I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I’d done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible.” He… Read More ›
Volume 11, Issue 12, 1-81, December 2022 Podcast Knowledge for Breakfast, Episode 3: “Faith, Knowing, and Believing.” Guest: Sister Mary Magdalene; Hosts: Fabien Medvecky and Michiel van Oudheusden. Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Sassower, Raphael 2022. “Why Does Latour the… Read More ›
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.[1]—Antonio Gramsci Society is a prison. Some of us are prisoners but most of us are guards.[2]—Robert Zimmerman … [please read below… Read More ›
Scott Hill’s most recent defense of the Le Monde declaration against conspiracy theory is welcome.[1] It’s an enjoyable and thoughtful piece with a high spirit to it. He also shares a disturbing revelation. Most important, it represents another opportunity to… Read More ›
The core of the problem of whether institutions of scientific knowledge can hold onto their legitimacy is a matter of trust. When I take a COVID vaccine, I do so trusting that the institutions and organizations involved in developing and… Read More ›