Volume 13, Issue 3, 1–38, March 2024 ❧ Martin, Brian. 2024. “Censorship in Science: Deeper Processes.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 13 (3): 1–5. ❧ Rider, Sharon. 2024. “The Contemporary Research University: Freedom and Force.” Social Epistemology Review and… Read More ›
In his carefully articulated demarcation between two kinds of epistemological frameworks, Erhan Şimşek (2024) suggests that to understand plagiarism, perhaps even accept it, one must not confuse them. Here is the demarcation line, which in turn undergirds an academic practice:… 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 ›
I appreciate Raphael Sassower’s (2022) efforts to make sense of my memoir—Mad Hazard: A Life in Social Theory (2022a)—and hope in this response to make a little more sense out of the issues he raises. He does a good job… Read More ›
Years ago, I traveled on a sabbatical to South America and returned with what I thought was a derivative of my companion book on the trip, Jacques Derrida’s The Post Card (1987), thinking my thoughts and feelings deserved to be… Read More ›
It was sometime in the mid-1990s that I first met Bruno Latour in person. It was the annual 4S meeting, either in Seattle or Portland. It was a smallish room that held about thirty people. In walks a tall and… Read More ›
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 ›
Though the question posed by Steve Fuller’s latest essay (2021) appears to be metaphysically minded, it turns out to be much more aligned with either Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm shifts or James Carville’s famous quip about the economy.[1] After discussing Facebook’s… Read More ›
How does it feel to be under lockdown because of the coronavirus epidemic? Bruno Latour, a leading scholar of the science studies community for the past four decades, answers: “I feel like a load of washing in the drum of… Read More ›
Symposium in Honor of Joseph Agassi, Nov 17-18, 2021. Please see the pdf with the schedule. Speakers will include Malachi Hacohen, Nathaniel Laor, Jeremy Shearmur, Bill Berkson, Stefano Gattei, Lydia Amir, Ian Jarvie, Raphael Sassower, Michael Segr, Chen Yehezkeli, Nimrod… Read More ›