On encountering Charles Lassiter’s article (2024a) “Reading the Signs: From Dyadic to Triadic Views for Identifying Experts,” I felt totally in tune with his vision. A few years ago, I too had published an article in the Italian journal Prometeo on the crisis of competence (Censon 2020) which, although it did not have the theoretical breadth of the one written by Lassiter, touched on the same points. … [please read below the rest of the article].| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Arguing against pessimists often feels silly. Why can’t one just face up to the sober truth—the truth that we have failed and should expect to fail in the future? Grasping at straws…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
“Taking It Not at Face Value: A New Taxonomy for the Beliefs Acquired from Conversational AIs” (2024), written by Japanese scholar Shun Iizuka, deals with the question of trust and belief with regard to the way humans interact with conversational AIs such as ChatGPT. This question has since garnered increasing prominence with the public releases of reasoning models, with DeepSeek releasing their R1 model in January 2025 (Sharma 2025) and OpenAI responding with their o3-mini model just 10 ...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Bálint Békefi (2024) is apparently not convinced by my book—after all, I think, by nothing in it. Before answering his objections, I’d like to summarize the message of the book: where did I want to go…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Book Review contributions are single-authored or multiple-authored reviews of recent books in the area of social epistemology.| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
