Blake Roeber’s new book (2024) is an impressive achievement. In just 150 or so pages of highly readable and accessible prose, Roeber argues for a novel view of how we should engage with politics in our highly polarized societies.[1] We should engage humbly, in full awareness of how little we can know. In this critical essay, I won’t take issue with Roeber’s prescriptions. Perhaps we should engage in politics humbly. I will, however, take issue with his arguments. I am sceptical of almos...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
In Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, Dennett (2013) offers some advice when criticizing others’ views. He says, “You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Whether we like it or not, we live in interesting times for democracy. We aspire to rule by the people but for the people to rule they need to have knowledge both of political institutions and…| 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
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
Lisa Herzog’s wonderful book Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy (Herzog 2023), examines how democratic market societies should deal with the tension that can…| 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
Volume 13, Issue 2, 1-90, February 2024 ❧ Ingold, Tim. 2024. “On Being Tasked with the Problem of Inhabiting the Page.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 13 (2): 1–7. ❧ Bollen…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Abstract The recognition problem—or, the difficulty of non-experts to appropriately distinguish experts from cleverly disguised fakes—is a perennial problem in expertise studies. And the more we learn…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
I am not a philosopher. Nor in my own publications have I intentionally followed any of the professional canons of philosophical reasoning or philosophical genres.[1] Nonetheless…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
