The Right Hinge for the Right Door: A Response to Fairhurst’s Piecemeal Hinge Epistemology, Anna Pederneschi
It is particularly hard to write a critical response to an argument one overall agrees with. In “Hinge Epistemology: Why Choose?” (2025) Jordi Fairhurst shows his readers that hinge epistemology—a theory that holds that epistemic practices are based on unquestioned presuppositions called hinges—is stuck in a stalemate that prevents advancements. This paralysis, Fairhurst argues, is caused by a couple of assumption: a theoretical one that takes the presuppositions—hinges—to have so...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
