SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY REVIEW AND REPLY COLLECTIVEARTICLESBOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWSCOLLECTIVE JUDGMENT FORUMCOLLECTIVE VISIONCRITICAL APPRECIATION Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective. The subject of Seunghyun Song’s recent Social Epistemology article is the imperial Japanese government’s practice of conscripting women from occupied countries into sexual slavery during the Asia–Pacific War. At so-called “comfort” stations, the trafficked women were raped by

Japanese

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The Game and How to Play It: A Review of Fuller’s A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition, Darius Khor. By SERRC on May 24, 2021 • ( 0). What is striking as you turn the final page of Steve Fuller’s (2020) A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition: The Name of the Game, is the enormous ‘weight’ of the text despite its slim one-hundred and forty pages. EMANCIPATORY ACTIVIST MOVEMENTS CAN BUILD COLLECTIVE Home › Critical Replies › Emancipatory Activist Movements Can Build Collective Intellectual Self-Trust—But Not Always in Ways We Would Like, Inkeri Koskinen. Emancipatory Activist Movements Can Build Collective Intellectual Self-Trust—But Not Always in Ways We Would Like, Inkeri Koskinen By SERRC on February 19, 2021 • ( 0). N adja El Kassar (2020) argues that intellectual self-trust “WHAT MORE AM I TO DO?” A REVIEW OF BERNARD E. HARCOURT’S Critique & Praxis: A Critical Philosophy of Illusions, Values, and Action Bernard E. Harcourt Columbia University Press, 2020 696 pp. The two introductory chapters summarize context and the three elements of a new critical theory, clarified by straightforward language, instructive explanation, exhaustive references, and illustrative

examples.

SCIENCE DENIAL, PSEUDOSKEPTICISM, AND PHILOSOPHICAL I n this reply, I examine the relationship between science denialism and education. Specifically I want to address how the mode of science denial I identify as pseudoskepticism relates to information deficits of a philosophical nature. Sharon Mason is interested, as I am, in identifying the deficits in knowledge that contribute to climate science denialism and undermine scientific literacy.

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I n 1988, Eric McLuhan published some of the final papers of his father’s pioneering work, weaving together his own thoughts on language, media and communication in the form of a systematic approach to media studies, technology and culture. As a book with a method-as-starting-point, the McLuhans’ left open the possibility for future scholars to continue their work on media effects, the so WHITE IGNORANCE AND HERMENEUTICAL INJUSTICE: A COMMENT ON I n my “White Ignorance” (Mills 2007), I welcomed the development within formal epistemology of social epistemology, and the advent of journals like Social Epistemology, while complaining that the authors in this new branch of epistemology seemed in general to be working with a concept of the social that excluded social oppression.So I should begin by saying how delighted I am EXTREME TESTIMONIAL INJUSTICE OR DISCURSIVE INJUSTICE? A This is the spirit in which I engage with Dina Lupin Townsend and Leo Townsend’s paper (2021). It sits closer to the applied side of things, bringing to bear both of Fricker’s categories of epistemic injustice—testimonial injustice and hermeneutical injustice—in order to try to illuminate some of the epistemic challenges faced by Indigenous peoples and how those epistemic challenges OUT-OF-THIS-BOOK: A REVIEW OF BRUNO LATOUR’S DOWN TO EARTH Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime Bruno Latour Polity Press, 2018 106 pp. B runo Latour’s Down to Earth is, functionally, a call to rethink and re-describe our political reality in accordance with the changing forces that shape it. Latour lays out his argument in 20 brief sections, each deceptively quick to read. THE BAD NEWS ABOUT FAKE NEWS, NEIL LEVY This definition is intended to fix the reference for discussion, not serve as a set of necessary and sufficient conditions. While there may be interesting philosophical work to do in settling difficult questions about whether a particular organization or a particular item is or is not an instance of fake news, this is not work I aim to undertake here. We can make a great deal of progress on SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY REVIEW AND REPLY COLLECTIVEARTICLESBOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWSCOLLECTIVE JUDGMENT FORUMCOLLECTIVE VISIONCRITICAL APPRECIATION Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective. The subject of Seunghyun Song’s recent Social Epistemology article is the imperial Japanese government’s practice of conscripting women from occupied countries into sexual slavery during the Asia–Pacific War. At so-called “comfort” stations, the trafficked women were raped by

Japanese

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The Game and How to Play It: A Review of Fuller’s A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition, Darius Khor. By SERRC on May 24, 2021 • ( 0). What is striking as you turn the final page of Steve Fuller’s (2020) A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition: The Name of the Game, is the enormous ‘weight’ of the text despite its slim one-hundred and forty pages. EMANCIPATORY ACTIVIST MOVEMENTS CAN BUILD COLLECTIVE Home › Critical Replies › Emancipatory Activist Movements Can Build Collective Intellectual Self-Trust—But Not Always in Ways We Would Like, Inkeri Koskinen. Emancipatory Activist Movements Can Build Collective Intellectual Self-Trust—But Not Always in Ways We Would Like, Inkeri Koskinen By SERRC on February 19, 2021 • ( 0). N adja El Kassar (2020) argues that intellectual self-trust “WHAT MORE AM I TO DO?” A REVIEW OF BERNARD E. HARCOURT’S Critique & Praxis: A Critical Philosophy of Illusions, Values, and Action Bernard E. Harcourt Columbia University Press, 2020 696 pp. The two introductory chapters summarize context and the three elements of a new critical theory, clarified by straightforward language, instructive explanation, exhaustive references, and illustrative

examples.

SCIENCE DENIAL, PSEUDOSKEPTICISM, AND PHILOSOPHICAL I n this reply, I examine the relationship between science denialism and education. Specifically I want to address how the mode of science denial I identify as pseudoskepticism relates to information deficits of a philosophical nature. Sharon Mason is interested, as I am, in identifying the deficits in knowledge that contribute to climate science denialism and undermine scientific literacy.

LAWS OF MEDIA

I n 1988, Eric McLuhan published some of the final papers of his father’s pioneering work, weaving together his own thoughts on language, media and communication in the form of a systematic approach to media studies, technology and culture. As a book with a method-as-starting-point, the McLuhans’ left open the possibility for future scholars to continue their work on media effects, the so WHITE IGNORANCE AND HERMENEUTICAL INJUSTICE: A COMMENT ON I n my “White Ignorance” (Mills 2007), I welcomed the development within formal epistemology of social epistemology, and the advent of journals like Social Epistemology, while complaining that the authors in this new branch of epistemology seemed in general to be working with a concept of the social that excluded social oppression.So I should begin by saying how delighted I am EXTREME TESTIMONIAL INJUSTICE OR DISCURSIVE INJUSTICE? A This is the spirit in which I engage with Dina Lupin Townsend and Leo Townsend’s paper (2021). It sits closer to the applied side of things, bringing to bear both of Fricker’s categories of epistemic injustice—testimonial injustice and hermeneutical injustice—in order to try to illuminate some of the epistemic challenges faced by Indigenous peoples and how those epistemic challenges OUT-OF-THIS-BOOK: A REVIEW OF BRUNO LATOUR’S DOWN TO EARTH Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime Bruno Latour Polity Press, 2018 106 pp. B runo Latour’s Down to Earth is, functionally, a call to rethink and re-describe our political reality in accordance with the changing forces that shape it. Latour lays out his argument in 20 brief sections, each deceptively quick to read. THE BAD NEWS ABOUT FAKE NEWS, NEIL LEVY This definition is intended to fix the reference for discussion, not serve as a set of necessary and sufficient conditions. While there may be interesting philosophical work to do in settling difficult questions about whether a particular organization or a particular item is or is not an instance of fake news, this is not work I aim to undertake here. We can make a great deal of progress on

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From Deficient Liberalism Toward a Deeper Sense of Freedom, Ljiljana Radenovic. By SERRC on June 7, 2021 • ( 0). Man’s freedom as a human being, as a principle of a commonwealth, can be expressed in the

following formula.

TOMASELLO, VYGOTSKY, AND THE PHYLOGENESIS OF MIND: A REPLY Home › Critical Replies › Tomasello, Vygotsky, and the Phylogenesis of Mind: A Reply to Potapov’s “Objectification and the Labour of the Negative in the Origin of Human Thinking,” Chris Drain. Tomasello, Vygotsky, and the Phylogenesis of Mind: A Reply to Potapov’s “Objectification and the Labour of the Negative in the Origin of Human Thinking,” Chris Drain TAG: LJILJANA RADENOVIC From Deficient Liberalism Toward a Deeper Sense of Freedom, Ljiljana Radenovic. By SERRC on June 7, 2021 • ( 0). Man’s freedom as a human being, as a principle of a commonwealth, can be expressed in the

following formula.

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The Game and How to Play It: A Review of Fuller’s A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition, Darius Khor. By SERRC on May 24, 2021 • ( 0). What is striking as you turn the final page of Steve Fuller’s (2020) A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition: The Name of the Game, is the enormous ‘weight’ of the text despite its slim one-hundred and forty pages. FROM DEFICIENT LIBERALISM TOWARD A DEEPER SENSE OF FREEDOM Home › Articles › From Deficient Liberalism Toward a Deeper Sense of Freedom, Ljiljana Radenovic. From Deficient Liberalism Toward a Deeper Sense of Freedom, Ljiljana Radenovic By SERRC on June 7, 2021 • ( 0). Man’s freedom as a human being, as a principle of a commonwealth, can be expressed in the following formula. A CRITICAL REVIEW OF POST-TRUTH: KNOWLEDGE AS A POWER GAME Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game Steve Fuller Anthem Press, 2018 218 pp. R eviewing Steve Fuller’s book, Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game, from the Greek island of Zakynthos, in the middle of a global pandemic is a surreal experience. Particularly, because Fuller’s book is dedicated to Thucydides who he states was the originator of fake news. A TRANSLATOR’S RESPONSE TO REVIEWERS’ COMMENTS: ON LI Home › Articles › A Translator’s Response to Reviewers’ Comments: On Li Zehou’s A History of Classical Chinese Thought, Andrew Lambert. A Translator’s Response to Reviewers’ Comments: On Li Zehou’s A History of Classical Chinese Thought, Andrew Lambert . By SERRC on May 18, 2020 • ( 0). I am grateful for this opportunity to discuss Li Zehou’s work in this interdisciplinary THE POLITICS OF SYMMETRY, BERNHARD ISOPP Home › Articles › The Politics of Symmetry, Bernhard Isopp. The Politics of Symmetry, Bernhard Isopp By SERRC on January 15, 2020 • ( 5). A little while ago, historian of science Nathaniel Comfort wrote a piece for Nature in which he gives an overview of historically shifting senses of identity—both human and personal—that have accompanied changes in scientific understanding of WHAT RATIONALITY? A COMMENT ON LEVY’S “IS CONSPIRACY N eil Levy (2019) provides several new angles on the long-standing question about the rationality, or lack thereof, of people who accept objectively unwarranted conspiracy theories. Levy’s position rests on two arguments. First, accepting conspiracy theories is subjectively rational for many people because they satisfy that person’s personal epistemic standards. RADENOVIC DEFICIENT LIBERALISM SERRC 6-7-2021 L. Radenovic 21 Regarding Liberal Theory Philosophers like Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor have identified some of the weakest points of liberal theory (for a summary see Keeney 2016).

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A Critical Review of Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game by Steve Fuller, Des Hewitt. By SERRC on August 18, 2020 • ( 0). Reviewing Steve Fuller’s book, Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game, from the Greek island of Zakynthos, in the middle of a global pandemic is a

surreal experience.

STEALTHY VICES, QUASSIM CASSAM Home › Critical Replies › Stealthy Vices, Quassim Cassam. Stealthy Vices, Quassim Cassam By SERRC on October 16, 2015 • ( 2). Author Information: Quassim Cassam, University of Warwick, q.Cassam@warwick.ac.uk Cassam, Quassim. “Stealthy Vices.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 4, no. 10 (2015): 19-25.. The PDF of the article gives specific page numbers. EXPLORING EPISTEMIC VICES: A REVIEW OF QUASSIM CASSAM’S Vices of the Mind: From the Intellectual to the Political Quassim Cassam Oxford University Press, 2019 224 pp. I n Vices of the Mind, Cassam provides an accessible, engaging, and timely introduction to the nature of epistemic vices and what we can do about them. Cassam provides an account of epistemic vices and explores three broad types of epistemic vices: character traits, THE POLITICS OF SYMMETRY, BERNHARD ISOPP Home › Articles › The Politics of Symmetry, Bernhard Isopp. The Politics of Symmetry, Bernhard Isopp By SERRC on January 15, 2020 • ( 5). A little while ago, historian of science Nathaniel Comfort wrote a piece for Nature in which he gives an overview of historically shifting senses of identity—both human and personal—that have accompanied changes in scientific understanding of OUT-OF-THIS-BOOK: A REVIEW OF BRUNO LATOUR’S DOWN TO EARTHBRUNO LATOUR DOWN TO EARTHPOLITICS OF NATURE BRUNO LATOURBRUNO LATOUR ANTBRUNO LATOUR QUOTES Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime Bruno Latour Polity Press, 2018 106 pp. B runo Latour’s Down to Earth is, functionally, a call to rethink and re-describe our political reality in accordance with the changing forces that shape it. Latour lays out his argument in 20 brief sections, each deceptively quick to read. SOCRATICS AND ANTI-SOCRATICS: THE STATUS OF EXPERTISE Image credit: J.D. Falk, via flickr D o we, academically trained and credentialed philosophers, understand what philosophy is? It’s a disquieting question, or would be, if it could be taken seriously. But who can take it seriously? Academic philosophers are the inheritors of more than 100 years of painstaking, peer-reviewed work—to say nothing of centuries of thinking before that.

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I n 1988, Eric McLuhan published some of the final papers of his father’s pioneering work, weaving together his own thoughts on language, media and communication in the form of a systematic approach to media studies, technology and culture. As a book with a method-as-starting-point, the McLuhans’ left open the possibility for future scholars to continue their work on media effects, the so IN DEFENCE OF PARTICULARISM: A REPLY TO STOKES, MATTHEW R Image credit: Jacob Surland, via flickr T here has been a flurry of talk of conspiracy theories in these pages recently, largely led by Lee Basham and myself engaging in friendly correspondence over my paper ‘When inferring to a conspiracy theory might be the best explanation.’, , Patrick Stokes, another philosopher interested in the philosophy of conspiracy theories, has gently criticised WHITE IGNORANCE AND HERMENEUTICAL INJUSTICE: A COMMENT ON I n my “White Ignorance” (Mills 2007), I welcomed the development within formal epistemology of social epistemology, and the advent of journals like Social Epistemology, while complaining that the authors in this new branch of epistemology seemed in general to be working with a concept of the social that excluded social oppression.So I should begin by saying how delighted I am ADAM SMITH’S SYMPATHETIC IMAGINATION: A REPLY TO LENNON Image credit: Omar Bárcena, via flickr I n her insightful review of “When Adam Met Sally: The Transformative Potential of Sympathy”, Kathleen Lennon (2016) claims that Adam Smith’s concept of the sympathetic imagination is problematic as a resource for thinking through how to intervene in damaging social imaginaries. First, Smith’s account reinforces in her view a picture of the

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A Critical Review of Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game by Steve Fuller, Des Hewitt. By SERRC on August 18, 2020 • ( 0). Reviewing Steve Fuller’s book, Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game, from the Greek island of Zakynthos, in the middle of a global pandemic is a

surreal experience.

STEALTHY VICES, QUASSIM CASSAM Home › Critical Replies › Stealthy Vices, Quassim Cassam. Stealthy Vices, Quassim Cassam By SERRC on October 16, 2015 • ( 2). Author Information: Quassim Cassam, University of Warwick, q.Cassam@warwick.ac.uk Cassam, Quassim. “Stealthy Vices.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 4, no. 10 (2015): 19-25.. The PDF of the article gives specific page numbers. EXPLORING EPISTEMIC VICES: A REVIEW OF QUASSIM CASSAM’S Vices of the Mind: From the Intellectual to the Political Quassim Cassam Oxford University Press, 2019 224 pp. I n Vices of the Mind, Cassam provides an accessible, engaging, and timely introduction to the nature of epistemic vices and what we can do about them. Cassam provides an account of epistemic vices and explores three broad types of epistemic vices: character traits, THE POLITICS OF SYMMETRY, BERNHARD ISOPP Home › Articles › The Politics of Symmetry, Bernhard Isopp. The Politics of Symmetry, Bernhard Isopp By SERRC on January 15, 2020 • ( 5). A little while ago, historian of science Nathaniel Comfort wrote a piece for Nature in which he gives an overview of historically shifting senses of identity—both human and personal—that have accompanied changes in scientific understanding of OUT-OF-THIS-BOOK: A REVIEW OF BRUNO LATOUR’S DOWN TO EARTHBRUNO LATOUR DOWN TO EARTHPOLITICS OF NATURE BRUNO LATOURBRUNO LATOUR ANTBRUNO LATOUR QUOTES Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime Bruno Latour Polity Press, 2018 106 pp. B runo Latour’s Down to Earth is, functionally, a call to rethink and re-describe our political reality in accordance with the changing forces that shape it. Latour lays out his argument in 20 brief sections, each deceptively quick to read. SOCRATICS AND ANTI-SOCRATICS: THE STATUS OF EXPERTISE Image credit: J.D. Falk, via flickr D o we, academically trained and credentialed philosophers, understand what philosophy is? It’s a disquieting question, or would be, if it could be taken seriously. But who can take it seriously? Academic philosophers are the inheritors of more than 100 years of painstaking, peer-reviewed work—to say nothing of centuries of thinking before that.

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I n 1988, Eric McLuhan published some of the final papers of his father’s pioneering work, weaving together his own thoughts on language, media and communication in the form of a systematic approach to media studies, technology and culture. As a book with a method-as-starting-point, the McLuhans’ left open the possibility for future scholars to continue their work on media effects, the so IN DEFENCE OF PARTICULARISM: A REPLY TO STOKES, MATTHEW R Image credit: Jacob Surland, via flickr T here has been a flurry of talk of conspiracy theories in these pages recently, largely led by Lee Basham and myself engaging in friendly correspondence over my paper ‘When inferring to a conspiracy theory might be the best explanation.’, , Patrick Stokes, another philosopher interested in the philosophy of conspiracy theories, has gently criticised WHITE IGNORANCE AND HERMENEUTICAL INJUSTICE: A COMMENT ON I n my “White Ignorance” (Mills 2007), I welcomed the development within formal epistemology of social epistemology, and the advent of journals like Social Epistemology, while complaining that the authors in this new branch of epistemology seemed in general to be working with a concept of the social that excluded social oppression.So I should begin by saying how delighted I am ADAM SMITH’S SYMPATHETIC IMAGINATION: A REPLY TO LENNON Image credit: Omar Bárcena, via flickr I n her insightful review of “When Adam Met Sally: The Transformative Potential of Sympathy”, Kathleen Lennon (2016) claims that Adam Smith’s concept of the sympathetic imagination is problematic as a resource for thinking through how to intervene in damaging social imaginaries. First, Smith’s account reinforces in her view a picture of the TAG: DIGITAL AFTERLIFE Zombie Epistemology: Or, I Ain’t Gonna Work on Zoltan’s Farm, Either, Part II, William T. Lynch. By SERRC on June 4, 2021 • ( 0). Steve Fuller’s work on transhumanism is interesting because it forces us to think about the long-term trajectory of the human species

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CATEGORY: BOOKS AND BOOK REVIEWS Books and Book Reviews. Book Review contributions are single-authored or multiple-authored reviews of recent books in the area of social epistemology. “What More Am I to Do?”. A Review of Bernard E. Harcourt’s Critique & Praxis: A Critical Philosophy of Illusions, Values, and Action, Misun Dokko. Setting the Stage Bernard E.

Harcourt’s

TAG: ENGAGING SCIENCE On Academic Elitism, Implicit Racism, and Social Media, Joshua Earle. By SERRC on May 28, 2021 • ( 0). How 4S Got Absolutely Bodied on Twitter by MC Hammer—yes, that one; no, I’m not kidding—and Deserved It At around noon on February 22, 2021, a remarkable thing

happened.

FROM DEFICIENT LIBERALISM TOWARD A DEEPER SENSE OF FREEDOM Home › Articles › From Deficient Liberalism Toward a Deeper Sense of Freedom, Ljiljana Radenovic. From Deficient Liberalism Toward a Deeper Sense of Freedom, Ljiljana Radenovic By SERRC on June 7, 2021 • ( 0). Man’s freedom as a human being, as a principle of a commonwealth, can be expressed in the following formula.

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What is striking as you turn the final page of Steve Fuller’s (2020) A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition: The Name of the Game, is the enormous ‘weight’ of the text despite its slim one-hundred

and forty pages.

TAG: COLONIALISM 2.0 Zombie Epistemology: Or, I Ain’t Gonna Work on Zoltan’s Farm, Either, Part II, William T. Lynch. By SERRC on June 4, 2021 • ( 0). Steve Fuller’s work on transhumanism is interesting because it forces us to think about the long-term trajectory of the human species

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On Academic Elitism, Implicit Racism, and Social Media, Joshua Earle. By SERRC on May 28, 2021 • ( 0). How 4S Got Absolutely Bodied on Twitter by MC Hammer—yes, that one; no, I’m not kidding—and Deserved It At around noon on February 22, 2021, a remarkable thing

happened.

TAG: MICHAEL MASCARENHAS On Academic Elitism, Implicit Racism, and Social Media, Joshua Earle. By SERRC on May 28, 2021 • ( 0). How 4S Got Absolutely Bodied on Twitter by MC Hammer—yes, that one; no, I’m not kidding—and Deserved It At around noon on February 22, 2021, a remarkable thing

happened.

TAG: THEORETICAL PHYSICS Faith and Reason: The Re-Emergence of Neo-Mu’tazilite Thought in the Discourse of Modern Muslim Scientists, Abdelhaq M. Hamza. By SERRC on September 26, 2014 • ( 3). Author Information: Abdelhaq M. Hamza, University of New Brunswick, ahamza@unb.ca Hamza, Abdelhaq M. “Faith and Reason: The Re-Emergence of Neo-Mu’tazilite Thought in the Discourse of Modern Muslim Scientists.” ZOMBIE EPISTEMOLOGY: OR, I AIN’T GONNA WORK ON ZOLTAN’S W.T. Lynch 2 “evolutionary vanguard” from Homo sapiens in the narrow sense, leaving us behind like zoo animals “brought back down to their biological natures.” Bodies are bad, bur constantly looking to upgrade your form (“morphological freedom”) is good. SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY REVIEW AND REPLY COLLECTIVE EXPLORING KNOWLEDGE AS A SOCIAL PHENOMENON

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REPAIRING EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE: A REPLY TO SONG, JENNIFER PAGE

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Miranda Fricker’s Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2007) has inspired an incredible amount of work, both with philosophy and more broadly. Some of this work is more theoretical in nature: for example, trying to refine our understanding… Read More

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WHAT IS HERMENEUTICAL INJUSTICE AND WHO SHOULD WE BLAME? ELINOR MASON

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In this engaging paper, “Who’s to Blame? Hermeneutical Misfire, Forward-Looking Responsibility, and Collective Accountability” (2021), Hilkje Hänel offers an account of the ways in which both victims and perpetrators of sexual violation are subject to cognitive distortions due to sexist… Read More › FROM GROUP SCAFFOLDED INDIVIDUAL SELF-TRUST TO GROUP SELF-TRUST,

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Nadja El Kassar (2021) argues that collective intellectual self-trust can both block the negative effects of epistemic injustice and support active resistance to it. Collectives enable those who might otherwise suffer the corrosive effects of having their epistemic capacities routinely… Read More ›

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Science and all that it represents stands at the center of our civilization. There is an increasing interest, both within and without the academy, in the rhetoric of science, and I believe, despite the irony implicit in the request, that… Read More ›

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THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION OF SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY 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? — Steve Fuller, 1988

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