Volume 11, Issue 5, 1-79, May 2022 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Riggio, Adam. 2022. “Becoming Gestalt: Human and Algorithmic Intelligence—Review of Machine Habitus.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 11 (5): 1-11. ❧ Prusik, Charles A. 2022. “Reply to… Read More ›
Mark D. West
Review of Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making and Knowing, Mark D. West
What do we mean when we talk about models? We mean simulacra, miniatures, objects which serve as physical abstractions in order to make a point or test a theory. More broadly speaking, models are mental or physical objects that belong… Read More ›
SERRC: Volume 11, Issue 3, March 2022
Volume 11, Issue 3, 1-84, March 2022 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ West, Mark D. 2022. “Embodying ‘Necro-Waste’: On Toxic Discourse.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 11 (3): 1-12. ❧ Balla, Bonaventure. 2022. “The Quest for Truth in the… Read More ›
Embodying ‘Necro-Waste’: On Toxic Discourse, Mark D. West
In previous discussions of necro-waste, I think that social epistemology has taken an important step by discussing what seems to be a constellation of concepts (“corpse”, “cadaver”, “remains”, “body”, “necro-waste”) which serve to describe, more than anything else, a set… Read More ›
SERRC: Volume 10, Issue 12, December 2021
Volume 10, Issue 12, 1-79, December 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Levy, Neil. 2021. “Predictably Rational: A Further Response to Grundmann.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (12): 75-79. ❧ Sassower, Raphael. 2021. “It’s the Economy, Stupid: Comment… Read More ›
Gaia and COVID: A Review of Bruno Latour’s After Lockdown, Mark D. West
Bruno Latour’s new After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis (2021) offers to the reader in what is said in the text Latour at his best—and also, by what goes unsaid, Latour at his most cryptic … [please read below the rest of… Read More ›
La Nouvelle Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, Mark West and Miika Vähämaa
Author Information: Mark West, University of North Carolina, west@unca.edu, Miika Vähämaa, University of Helsinki, miika.vahamaa@gmail.com West, Mark and Miika Vähämaa. “La Nouvelle Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes: The Analytic and Critical Tendencies in Social Epistemology.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply… Read More ›
The Holidays and What is Given, Mark D. West
Author Information: Mark D. West, University of North Carolina, Asheville, west@unca.edu West, Mark D. “The Holidays and What is Given.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 5, no. 12 (2016): 17-19. Editor’s Note: As we near the end of an… Read More ›
Organic Solidarity, Science and Group Knowledge, Mark D. West
Author Information: Mark D. West, University of North Carolina at Asheville, westinbrevard@yahoo.com West, Mark D. “Organic Solidarity, Science and Group Knowledge.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 5, no. 10 (2016): 1-11. The PDF of the article gives specific page… Read More ›
Considering Purposeful Epistemology: On Starting Over. Review of Epistemic Evaluation: Purposeful Epistemology, Mark D. West
Author Information: Mark D. West, University of North Carolina at Asheville, westinbrevard@yahoo.com West, Mark D. “Considering Purposeful Epistemology: On Starting Over. Review of Epistemic Evaluation: Purposeful Epistemology.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 5, no. 9 (2016): 19-33. The PDF of the article… Read More ›