Volume 12, Issue 12, 1-30, December 2023 ❧ Spewak, David C. Jr. 2023. “What Exactly is Wrong with Telling Someone You Believe Them When You Don’t? A Reply to Luxemburg-Peck.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 12 (12): 1–8. ❧… Read More ›
Steve Fuller
Thinking of Kant Just Before his Tercentenary, Steve Fuller
22 April 2024 will mark the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Immanuel Kant in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). My New Year’s resolution is to finish a play that I have been planning for the last few… Read More ›
Apocalypse Now? Yes, but Keep Calm and Carry On, Steve Fuller
A couple of weeks ago I completed the sixth iteration of a popular course I teach called ‘The Sociology of End Times’, which is cross-listed for both undergraduates and graduate students. It attracts matriculants from many departments, which is unusual… Read More ›
Is the Metaverse the New Metaphysics? Steve Fuller
In a year with many twists and turns, the significance of one event may outlast its hype, namely, Mark Zuckerberg’s rebranding of Facebook as ‘Meta’, to coincide with the launch of the ‘Metaverse’, as the main platform for its future… Read More ›
We are the Fallen Riding the Tiger of World-History: Christmas in the Post-Truth Condition, Steve Fuller
The Electoral College may have secured Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 US presidential election, but that was just one battle in the ongoing wars over truth and knowledge that have been raging for a century now. These wars began,… Read More ›
Social Epistemology at the Dawn of a New Decade, Steve Fuller
This [2019] year-end reflection will return to the state of social epistemology and how it might go forward in light of the post-truth condition. Its point of departure is threefold. First is the recent assessment made by our field’s ‘honest… Read More ›
A New Era and a Continuing Mission, Adam Riggio
The year 2018 is coming to an end and I, frankly, could not be happier. A time of continuing upheaval, the year began with a durable pessimism, and its ending is tolerable to the democratically-minded only because of those few… Read More ›
Against Virtue and For Modernity: Rebooting the Modern Left, Steve Fuller
My [2017] holiday message for the coming year is a call to re-boot the modern left. When I was completing my doctoral studies, just as the Cold War was beginning to wind down, the main threat to the modern left… Read More ›
Christmas Message 2015: Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk, Steve Fuller
Editor’s Note: The following was first published on 24 December 2015. Beginning in 2012, I asked Steve Fuller to provide a Christmas greeting—or, end-of-year reflection of sorts (see 2012, 2013 and 2014). In this tradition, and at this time of… Read More ›
Christmas Greetings 2014, Steve Fuller
Editor’s Note: The following was first published on 25 December 2014. Beginning in 2012, I asked Steve Fuller to provide a Christmas greeting—or, end-of-year reflection of sorts (see 2012 and 2013). As you will read below, Steve again challenges us… Read More ›