Volume 14, Issue 5, 1–102, May 2025 ❧ Fuller, Steve. 2025. “Elon Musk Meets Max Weber: The Logic of Dogelectics.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 14 (5): 1–6. https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-9MO.| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
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A few years ago, I had an experience during meditation that I cannot put into words. I can try to describe it with weak metaphors and approximations, but suffice it to say, it was one of those astonishing, sublime, blow-your-doors-off experiences that mystics and many others have recounted for centuries. I had been in the middle of writing an article about proto-communist radicals who attempted to overthrow the government in late eighteenth-century France, just before Napoleon’s coup, and c...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
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
Brian Talbot’s new book The End of Epistemology As We Know It (2023)[1] represents a challenge to mainstream analytic epistemology that goes well beyond its defiant title. Talbot argues that “standard”…| 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