Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective

(Mis) Reading the History of Petitionary Prayer and Superstition The worlds of Antiquity and the Middle Ages were profoundly different from ours. Martin (2004) correctly says it does not make sen...

https://social-epistemology.com/2024/05/01/on-petitionary-prayer-part-ii-ljiljan-radenovic/

Volume 13, Issue 4, 1–52, April 2024 ❧ Lockard, Claire A. 2024. “Critical Retrospective: An Open Letter to Commemorate the 10-Year Anniversary of Dotson’s ‘Conceptualizing Epistemic Opp...

https://social-epistemology.com/2024/04/30/serrc-volume-13-issue-4-1-52-april-2024/

And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.—Matthew 26:39. I...

https://social-epistemology.com/2024/04/29/on-petitionary-prayer-part-i-ljiljana-radenovic/

I am grateful to Francesco Censon (2024) for his thoughtful and very interesting paper. I agree with almost everything he says. Here, however, I will focus on the one thing I disagree with in his...

https://social-epistemology.com/2024/04/25/the-dominant-ordinary-use-of-conspiracy-theory-is-narrow-a-reply-to-censon-scott-hill/

In Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, Dennett (2013) offers some advice when criticizing others’ views. He says, “You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clear...

https://social-epistemology.com/2024/04/23/a-reply-to-watsons-follow-the-signs-taking-direction-from-semiotics-on-how-to-identify-experts-charles-lassiter/

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 pr...

https://social-epistemology.com/2024/04/18/review-lisa-herzogs-citizen-knowledge-alfred-archer/

In the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (SERRC), a debate has taken place since November 2016 on one of the hottest and most complex topics to hit contemporary news: conspiracy the...

https://social-epistemology.com/2024/04/16/an-interdisciplinary-drama-conspiracist-philosophers-versus-conspiring-social-scientists-francesco-censon/

Dear Dr. Kristie Dotson, It is an honor to write to you. To commemorate the 10-year-anniversary of your paper “Conceptualizing Epistemic Oppression,” Jim Collier, the Editor of the Social Epi...

https://social-epistemology.com/2024/04/08/critical-retrospective-an-open-letter-to-commemorate-the-10-year-anniversary-of-dotsons-conceptualizing-epistemic-oppression-claire-a-lockard/

Volume 13, Issue 3, 1–38, March 2024 ❧ Martin, Brian. 2024. “Censorship in Science: Deeper Processes.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 13 (3): 1–5. ❧ Rider, Sharon. 20...

https://social-epistemology.com/2024/04/01/serrc-volume-13-issue-3-1-38-march-2024/

In ‘Censorship Bubbles Vs Hate Bubbles,’ I have proposed one way of locating the epistemic badness of hate speech. As I have suggested, such badness can be located in the epistemic effect of ...

https://social-epistemology.com/2024/03/28/locating-the-epistemic-badness-of-hate-speech-a-reply-to-mcdonald-and-badino-wendy-xin/