Hinge Epistemology: No Choice but Choose? Youssef Aguisoul
Abstract| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Abstract| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
I have learned a great deal from Karin Kukkonen’s (2024) account of literary works as ‘boundary objects’, including her discussion of how these objects may play a role in facilitating interdisciplinary exchanges. While I find Kukkonen’s argument convincing overall, I have a few qualifications and complications that I would like to formulate in my response to “Designing an Expert-Setting for Interdisciplinary Dialogue: Literary Texts as Boundary Objects.” … [please read below the...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Jodi Newman has written an extremely careful and generous review of my recent book (2024), for which I am very grateful. Toward the end, she points to a series of topics that she found herself wishing I had directed more attention to, noting my stated intention to do so in other works. These topics include the use of dogwhistles and figleaves for misogyny and transphobia, and the use of dogwhistles by people other than the far-right. … [please read below the rest of the article].| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
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I wish I lived in a world where it was socially not weird to walk up to people and lay out my philosophical commitments like a collection of treasures. Deciphering other people’s commitments, as well as my own, is one of my favorite pastimes. And it seems there are always layers to what people say, even when they are being very earnest. One of my favorite things about being a scholar and a humanist is that, when I earnestly lay out my ideological commitments as best I can, sometimes it isn...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
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Professor Schneider’s article “Chatbot Epistemology” (2025) raises several important and timely questions regarding the use of large language models. I shall focus here on the epistemological questions, of which I think there is one that is central: Are chatbots a reliable source of information? … [please read below the rest of the article].| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Benjamin W. McCraw’s article “A Reidian Transcendental Argument Against Skepticism” (2025) constitutes an original and thought-provoking contribution both to Reid scholarship and to the discussion of epistemic skepticism.[1] In the following I will make a few remarks about it, focusing on the discussion of skepticism. I start with a brief historical remark on Reid and Kant (§ 1) before I explain the anti-skeptical argument in some detail (§ 2). A discussion of the premises of the argu...| 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
