I deny your holy footage.—Alexander Baker We should consider a reevaluation of the epistemic usefulness of video and audio evidence in momentous national and global political events and our response…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Epistemic injustice wrongs someone in their “capacity as a knower” (Fricker 2007). One way to suffer epistemic injustice is to be subject to deficits of intelligibility. That is to be prevented from…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
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
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Delivered on the eve of the country’s 247th celebration of Independence Day (4 July), the constitutional confusion exhibited and exacerbated by the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) majority opinion regarding…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Technology and language are good places to start when thinking about what makes humans unique, and between them, language triumphs. Language is a prerequisite for technology, science…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Abstract Naturalistic modes of research are interpretive for several reasons. Scientific observation is theory-laden (Yanow and Schwartz-Shea 2006). Facts are both theory- and value- laden (Goulding…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Glengarry Glen Ross is arguably the award-winning American playwright David Mamet’s masterpiece. The piece is set in a real estate office and revolves around the struggles and strategies…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
An abridged version of this article appears (in Chinese) in the 9 July 2024 edition of the Chinese Academy of Sciences publication, Chinese Social Sciences Today, translated by Zhixian Lian.| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
