How should the pursuit of knowledge be organized, given that under normal circumstances knowledge is pursued by many human beings, each working on a more or less well-defined body of knowledge and each equipped with roughly the same imperfect cognitive capacities, albeit with varying degree of access to one another’s activities?| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Steve Fuller (2024) conducted a comparative analysis of Western and Chinese philosophy and civilization from a Western perspective. His focus was on identifying differences between the two civilizations at their foundational starting points, with a goal of fostering mutual understanding, rather than viewing China as merely “the other” of the West. Some of his observations align with core aspects of Chinese philosophy and civilization. In the following, I will respond to Fuller’s interpr...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
I recently wrote a paper—“Caveat Auditor: Epistemic Trust and Conflicts of Interest” (2022)—arguing that a testifier’s incentives are epistemically relevant to our trust in them. People often have incentives to testify in ways that are at odds with the truth or their evidence, and sometimes they even have incentives to get you to believe what’s false or evidentially baseless. Those incentives are typically more important than a testifier’s expertise or knowledge. If you had to c...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
In this review, I will briefly summarize arguments by Diego Parente and Luciano Mascaró in their recent article…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Adam Green maintains that there is a need “for a virtue term that pertains to developing and maintaining a perspective that is epistemically independent of the groups to which one belongs” (Green 2024…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Nursing Epistemology: Then, and Now Healthcare organizations like universities are highly dynamic organizations “made up of multiple, complex, and overlapping subgroups with variably shared…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
