References | Table of Contents | | Part I | | Part II | | Part III | Part IV | | References | Acuña, Pablo. 2021. “Charting the Landscape of Interpretation, Theory Rivalry…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
This paper is the fourth stage in my debate with Bálint Békefi on the pages of SERRC (for previous details see Békefi 2024; Tőzsér 2025; Békefi 2025). Although our debate originally unfolded in…| 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
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
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
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
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
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
Jennifer Mather Saul’s Dogwhistles & Figleaves: How Manipulative Language Spreads Racism and Falsehood (2024) is an important contribution to the domains of philosophy of language, social epistemology and political philosophy. As the title indicates, Saul’s primary focus is on the nature and rhetorical effects of two linguistic devices: (1) dogwhistles and (2) figleaves. These specific linguistic techniques are often employed by political leaders to manipulate a target audience and influe...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Steve Fuller’s most recent book is entitled To Judge and to Justify, with the subtitle Profiles of the Academic Vocation, but this hardly offers the best key to its contents. The book might rather be…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
I sincerely appreciate Professor Levy’s continued engagement with my work. I’ll keep things short this time by offering direct responses to crucial passages in his reply (2024b). There are four of…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
“Let us show a little more compassion in our caring, an important lesson that this book advocates” (2024, 289). Like much of Kathryn Waddington and Bryan Bonaparte’s previous work, this book offers numerous practical insights into teaching with compassion at the University level. This collection of chapters engages with three overarching questions:| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
There are two streams of events in the world we may call public and non-public. The first constitutes officially acknowledged, publicly certified or certifiable events and the second a rub rosa realm…| 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
Recently, I reviewed Casey R. Johnson’s excellent book, Epistemic Care, for the SERRC; Professor Johnson and I have since, in these pages, engaged in the sort of pleasant exchange that makes one…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Zombie movies express for us the horror that would take place if the dead did not go away so that the living could pursue existence unimpeded by the dead hand of history. The horror is an inversion of…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Author Information: Damien Williams, Virginia Tech, damienw7@vt.edu Williams, Damien. “Cultivating Technomoral Interrelations: A Review of Shannon Vallor’s Technology and the Virtues.| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Blake Roeber’s new book (2024) is an impressive achievement. In just 150 or so pages of highly readable and accessible prose, Roeber argues for a novel view of how we should engage with politics in our highly polarized societies.[1] We should engage humbly, in full awareness of how little we can know. In this critical essay, I won’t take issue with Roeber’s prescriptions. Perhaps we should engage in politics humbly. I will, however, take issue with his arguments. I am sceptical of almos...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Whether we like it or not, we live in interesting times for democracy. We aspire to rule by the people but for the people to rule they need to have knowledge both of political institutions and…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
The historian in me surveys the academic fads of the last forty years in her field, including the overblown and rather dubious celebrations of cultural memory and cultural representation.| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
I want to start by thanking Professor Levy for his illuminating discussion (2024) of my book. Levy is an excellent philosopher, who consistently notices things that other people miss, and it’s an honor to have him write about my work. … [please read below the rest of the article].| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Mark D. West has written a very helpful review (2024) of my recent book, Epistemic Care: Vulnerability, Inquiry, and Social Epistemology. I appreciate the review and this opportunity to respond to it. I agree with much of what West says in the review—questions of autonomy, independence, and obligation are central to understanding communities of inquiry and the duties incumbent upon their members. In this response, I aim to clarify a couple of issues brought to light by West’s comments and...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
One of the classic challenges of philosophy has been to prove the existence of the outside world. G. E. Moore, who is known for his defense of common-sense realism, believed that it was possible to…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Nursing Epistemology: Then, and Now Healthcare organizations like universities are highly dynamic organizations “made up of multiple, complex, and overlapping subgroups with variably shared…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
What are the connections between social theory and conspiracy theory, and what can we learn by probing them, both for understanding and action? This question underpins a new edited volume titled…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
I am grateful for this opportunity to discuss Li Zehou’s work in this interdisciplinary forum, particularly because Li’s ideas are well suited to a cross-cultural and multi-perspectival approach.| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
When I reread Li Zehou’s A History of Chinese Classical Thought (published in Chinese in 1980), I am struck by three things: (1) How much more we know about early China now, in 2020…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
The career of Li Zehou has been shaped by its, at times, fortunate timing. He was able to establish his reputation as one of China’s leading philosophers during a time, after the death of Mao Zedong…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Lisa Herzog’s wonderful book Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy (Herzog 2023), examines how democratic market societies should deal with the tension that can…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
In her challenging book Epistemic Care (2023), Casey Rebecca Johnson argues that we have epistemic obligations to one another that stem from our social interdependence as knowers.| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
In 1959, the British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow held his famous Rede lecture on “The Two Cultures” (Snow 1961[1959]), juxtaposing the intellectual cultures of science on the one hand and of the…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
The Science-Music Borderlands, edited by Elizabeth H. Margulis, Psyche Loui and Deirdre Loughridge, offers a fresh perspective and broadened sense of music studies. The book splits into four parts…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
The introduction to the research collection Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons ends with a striking imperative. For the book to succeed fully in its purpose, its readers will have to organize…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective