When Is It Hard to Compromise?, Part II, Juha Räikkä
On the Difficulty of Compromises| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
On the Difficulty of Compromises| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
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Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee’s In COVID’S Wake (2025) provides a detailed description and analysis of the mismanagement of the COVID pandemic.[1] Major contributing factors were:| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Susan Stepney’s (2025) reconceptualisation of agential chemistry as programmable agential matter presents a potent challenge: how can matter be designed and engineered to be persuadable? This essay explores her provocation by proposing a practical framework for material persuasion by unpacking the key concept of the representational entity (RE) and combining this with two elements. First, I employ Françoise Chatelin’s non-classical mathematics—a representational framework that recasts...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Iain D. Thomson’s Heidegger on Technology’s Danger and Promise in the Age of AI offers a concise yet profoundly insightful engagement with Martin Heidegger’s later philosophy of technology, demonstrating its urgent relevance for navigating our contemporary technological predicament, particularly the rise of Artificial Intelligence. Situated within the Cambridge Elements series on Heidegger, the book aims to move beyond the often polarized and superficial reactions to technological advan...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
I was listening to a podcast the other day where yet another overwrought artist was furious that her work had been used to train a generative AI model. “They used my paintings without permission,” she said. “They owe me!” I completely understood her anger and I was full of empathy. I sincerely was. But I couldn’t help the feeling that she was making the wrong demand. Or rather, that she was fretting about losing a skirmish while fighting the wrong battle. … [please read below the ...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
The opioid epidemic in the USA claimed over half a million people over the years having a devastating impact on individuals and their families. Not many people know that Candace Pert (1946-2013) played a key role in discovering the opioid receptor in 1972 while a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University. A part of the “War on Drugs” campaign, her graduate research at Solomon Snyder laboratory aimed to understand the biological aspects of addiction so that it can be treated medically. ...| 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
