This is the first in a series of three essays in which I address the following issues: (1) The pros and cons of the so-called “minimalist” definition of conspiracy theories…| 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
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
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
Forgive me, philosophers, for I have sinned epistemically. It has been many years since my last confession. To start, I forgot to update my priors a few times. I haven’t always followed research on…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
