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 ›
Stephen Turner
Appreciating and Elaborating on Raphael Sassower’s Review of Mad Hazard, Stephen Turner
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 ›
A Hazard Called Sociology: Review of Stephen Turner’s Mad Hazard: A Life in Social Theory, Raphael Sassower
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 ›
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 ›
Our Techno-Masters and their Philosophical Cheerleaders: A Review of Richmond’s A Way Through the Global Techno-Scientific Culture, Stephen Turner
Sheldon Richmond is a philosopher who spent his working career in IT, and has written an ambitious and courageous book on the philosophy of the problem of computer technology that integrates philosophy of science and cultural and political aspects of… Read More ›
Coalitions of Trust: Using Epistemic Teams to Identify Experts, Jamie Carlin Watson
I appreciate the opportunity to continue this conversation on how non-experts might identify and, thereby, come to trust experts. While so much of contemporary philosophical discussion might be called destructive—attempts to defeat an “opponent’s” claims through counterexample—this forum has been… Read More ›
Circles or Regresses? The Problem of Genuine Expertise, Stephen Turner
Author Information: Stephen Turner, University of South Florida, turner@usf.edu. Turner, Stephen. “Circles or Regresses? The Problem of Genuine Expertise.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8, no. 4 (2019): 24-27. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink:… Read More ›
Fuller’s roter Faden, Stephen Turner
Author Information: Stephen Turner, University of South Florida, turner@usf.edu Turner, Stephen. “Fuller’s roter Faden.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 5 (2018): 25-29. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-3WX The Germans have a notion of “research… Read More ›
The Fault-Line Remains: A Reply to Collins, Richard W. Moodey
Author Information: Richard W. Moodey, Gannon University and Allegheny College, moodey001@gannon.edu Moodey, Richard W. “The Fault-Line Remains: A Reply to Collins.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 5, no. 9 (2016): 13-17. The PDF of the article gives specific page… Read More ›
Response to Gulick: Complementarity, Fault Lines, Terminology, Metaphors and Assertions, Richard W. Moodey
Author Information: Richard W. Moodey, Gannon University, moodey001@gannon.edu Moodey, Richard W. “Response to Gulick: Complementarity, Fault Lines, Terminology, Metaphors and Assertions.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 5, no. 3 (2016): 15-20. The PDF of the article gives specific page numbers. Shortlink: http://wp.me/p1Bfg0-2HD… Read More ›