Social Epistemology

Conspiracy Theories, Resistance to Evidence, and Propaganda: How Conspiracy Theories Advance Political Causes

Published on 2 Sep 2025

by M. Giulia Napolitano Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsM. Giulia Napolitano is an assistant professor of philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research lies in epistemology, especially applied, social, and political epistemology, and relevant areas of philosophy of mind and language.

Flexible or Rigid? A Functionalist Approach to Epistemic Standards

Published on 12 Aug 2025

by Enno Fischer Tammo Lossau a Institute of Philosophy, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germanyb Institute of Philosophy, University of Bremen, Bremen, GermanyEnno Fischer is a junior professor for philosophy of science at Dresden University of Technology. His research interests include the philosophy of physics, philosophy of experimentation, and theories of causation. He also works on the epistemology of medical research.Tammo Lossau is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Bremen. With his research, he develops a general account of standards, and he also works on ancient scepticism in Eastern and Western traditions.

Betting on Scams

Published on 31 Jul 2025

by Neil Levy a Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australiab Uehiro Oxford Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKNeil Levy is a Senior Research Fellow at the Uehiro Oxford Institute, University of Oxford, and Professor of philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney.

Existential Testimonial Injustice

Published on 31 Jul 2025

by Emily Goldbeck Philosophy, University of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, GermanyEmily Goldbeck (she/they) is studying philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy Hildesheim. She works on epistemic injustice, metaphysics of gender, and the philosophies of the psychiatric consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement.

Liberational Historical and Philosophical Arc to Queer Liberation Theory

Published on 23 Jul 2025

by Nick J. Mulé Kuir ë Garang School of Social Work, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University, Toronto, CanadaNick J. Mulé, PhD, is professor at the School of Social Work, cross appointed to the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University.Dr. Kuir ë Garang is a contract lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University and a partial-load professor at Sheridan College.

Trusting Conspiracy Theories

Published on 22 Jul 2025

by Dean Joseph Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University, Kingston, CanadaDean Joseph is a PhD student (philosophy) at Queen’s University, Kingston. His research focuses on political philosophy, in particular, democratic theory, bounded membership, and the political inclusion of people with severe intellectual disabilities, animals, and children.

Stop Calling It ‘Revenge Porn’. Hermeneutical Injustice in Image-Based Sexual Abuse

Published on 18 Jul 2025

by Marco Viola Eleonora Volta a Department of Philosophy, Communication, and Performing Arts, University Roma Tre, Rome, Italyb Faculty of Philosophy, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, ItalyMarco Viola is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Communication, and Performing Arts at Roma Tre University in Rome (Italy). His research primarily focuses on the philosophy of neuroscience, particularly the ontology of cognitive neuroscience. Since 2018, he co-organizes the Neural Mechanisms Online webinars. He has also explored topics related to emotion, social cognition (such as face perception), and social epistemology.Eleonora Volta is a Postdoctoral researcher in Philosophy at San Raffaele University in Milan (Italy). Her research falls squarely at the intersection of Social Philosophy of Language, Feminist Philosophy and Social Epistemology. Other research interests include Social and Political Philosophy, Sexual Ethics and Philosophy of Law. In her doctoral work, she investigates how rape myths and sexist stereotypes may affect the uptake of testimony in gender-based violence crime trials.

The Testimonial Double Bind for Disabled People

Published on 15 Jul 2025

by Avram Hiller Department of Philosophy, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USAAvram Hiller is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University. He works in several different areas of philosophy, including epistemology, environmental and animal ethics, and philosophy of disability.

The Vice of Nepotism: The Moral and the Epistemic

Published on 1 Jul 2025

by Paul O. Irikefe a Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine, USAb African Center for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (ACEPS), UJ, South AfricaPaul O. Irikefe is a President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Irvine. He obtained his PhD from Cardiff University in 2023. His research interests include epistemology, metaphilosophy, philosophy of race, indigenous philosophy, and African philosophy. He is presently completing a monograph on the epistemology of philosophy.

Chatbot Epistemology

Published on 26 Jun 2025

by Susan Schneider Center for the Future of Mind, AI and Society, Department of Philosophy and Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USADr. Susan Schneider writes about the nature of the self and mind, especially from the vantage point of issues in AI, philosophy, and neuroscience. She is the founding Director of the Center for the Future Mind at Florida Atlantic University, where she is the William F. Dietrich Distinguished Professor in the department of philosophy and the Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute. Before that, she held the Blumberg-NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology and the Distinguished Scholar Chair at the Library of Congress. In her latest book, Artificial You: AI and the Future of the Mind, she discusses the philosophical implications of AI, and, in particular, the enterprise of “mind design.” She also co-directs the MPCR (Machine Perception/Cognitive Robotics) Lab at FAU’s Gruber AI Sandbox. She also appears on television shows on stations such as PBS and The History Channel and writes opinion pieces for venues such as the New York Times, Scientific American, The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times.

Misplaced Trust in Expertise: Pseudo-Experts and Unreliable Experts

Published on 3 Jun 2025

by Michel Croce Neri Marsili a Department of Classics, History, and Philosophy, Universita degli Studi di Genova, Genoa, Italyb Lógica, Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid, SpainMichel Croce is Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Genoa, in the Department of Classics, History, and Philosophy. His research lies at the intersection of social and moral epistemology, virtue theory, and the philosophy of education. He has written on topics such as expertise, testimony, fake news, epistemic paternalism, intellectual virtues, moral understanding, and role models in education.Neri Marsili (PhD 2018, Sheffield) is a “Talent Attraction” Fellow at UNED, a university in Madrid, where he is currently leading an interdisciplinary research project on the philosophy of online disinformation. His primary areas of research include philosophy of language, epistemology, aesthetics, and experimental philosophy.

Epistemology of Folk-Lore

Published on 16 May 2025

by Til Eyinck Cologne Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition (CONCEPT), University of Cologne, Cologne, GermanyTil Eyinck is a doctoral student in philosophy at the Cologne Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition and is currently a visiting scholar of the ARCHÉ research lab at St Andrews University. In his dissertation, he is concerned with fictional speech. He has authored publications on modal logic and Wittgenstein’s early philosophy. His journalistic pieces, which are often thematically related to his academic work, have appeared in Frankfurter Rundschau and Die Welt, among others.

Conscious Perception as Augmented Reality

Published on 15 May 2025

by Wanja Wiese Institute for Philosophy II, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, GermanyWanja Wiese studied philosophy and mathematics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, where he also obtained his PhD in philosophy. A revised version of his dissertation was published by MIT Press (2018, Experienced Wholeness). In 2017, Wanja Wiese co-edited the collection Philosophy and Predictive Processing (together with Thomas Metzinger), which is freely available at https://predictive-mind.net. In 2019, he co-founded the diamond open access journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (https://philosophymindscience.org), together with Jennifer Windt and Sascha Fink. Wiese is currently a postdoctoral lecturer and researcher at Ruhr University Bochum. His research centers on consciousness (including AI consciousness), mental representation, philosophy of cognitive science, and philosophy of AI.

How Deep is Your Disagreement?

Published on 15 May 2025

by Dalila Serebrinsky Department of Philosophy, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaDalila Serebrinsky is a PhD student at Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). She is a teaching assistant of Introduction to Scientific Methodology at UBA and a Professor of Methodology of Social Sciences at Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora. Her areas of interest are General Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics of Science and Epistemology.

The Insertion of Islamic Psychology as a Decolonial Epistemological Proposal in the Field of Psychology

Published on 9 May 2025

by Sálua Omais Manoel Antônio dos Santos Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo (USP), Ribeirao Preto, BrazilDr. Sálua Omais holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of São Paulo and has been a visiting doctoral student at both the University of Cambridge and the Cambridge Muslim College (CMC) in the UK. She also holds a Master’s degree in Health Psychology and Mental Health, an MBA in Positive Psychology and Human Development, a Postgraduate degree in Islamic Psychology from CMC, a Postgraduate degree in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology. Dr. Omais has been practicing as a psychologist since 2008 and has also served as a voluntary lecturer at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul. She has authored two books in the field of Psychology in Brazil and she leads a group of Muslim psychologists in Brazil, called PsicoIslam, that provides mental health guidance to the Muslim community through webinars and social media platforms.Dr. Manoel Antônio dos Santos is a Full Professor at the University of São Paulo (USP), Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Ribeirão Preto, Brazil (FFCLRP-USP). He is the Head of the Teaching and Research Laboratory in Health Psychology (LEPPS). He holds a degree in Psychology from the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo, a Master’s degree and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo. He is also an Associate Professor at the FFCLRP-USP. He is a specialist in Family and Couple Therapy, in Clinical Psychology and Hospital Psychology. Since 1987, he has been a professor at the FFCLRP-USP, where he currently holds the position of Full Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology. He is a Research Productivity Fellow at Level 1A of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil and a member of the São Paulo Academy of Psychology.

New Waves in the Philosophy of Epistemic Authority and Expert Testimony: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Published on 8 May 2025

by Rico Hauswald Pedro Schmechtig Department of Philosophy, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, GermanyRico Hauswald is a Privatdozent at the Department of Philosophy at the Technische Universität Dresden. His work focuses on social epistemology, philosophy of science, social ontology, philosophy of medicine, and philosophy of artificial intelligence. He is currently PI of the BMBF-funded project ‘Dealing responsibly with AI-assisted systems in medicine – epistemological aspects’.Pedro Schmechtig is a research associate and lecturer at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Technology in Dresden. His research interests include social epistemology (especially epistemic values and goals, assurance and testimonial authority, non-ideal epistemology, interrogative forms of knowledge), social ontology (persistence of ordinary objects and spacetime), philosophy of language (propositional attitudes and speech acts).

Generative AI, Quadruple Deception & Trust

Published on 8 May 2025

by Judith Simon Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, GermanyJudith Simon is Full Professor for Ethics in Information Technologies at the Universität Hamburg. She is interested in ethical, epistemological and political questions arising in the context of digital technologies, in particular in regards to artificial intelligence. Judith Simon is Vice-Chair of the German Ethics Council, where she also was the spokesperson for the opinion on “Humans and Machines – Challenges of Artificial Intelligence”. She has been serving on various other committees of scientific policy advice such as the Data Ethics Commission of the German Federal Government (2018-2019). She is the editor of the Routledge Handbook of Trust and Philosophy (2020) and serves on the editorial and advisory boards of the journals “Philosophy and Technology”, “Big Data & Society” and “Digital Society”.

Two Ways of Seeing Post-Truth as a Stance

Published on 5 May 2025

by Raphaël Künstler Department of Philosophy, Université Toulouse II Jean-Jaurès, Toulouse, FranceRaphaël Künstler is a philosopher specializing in the social sciences, with a particular focus on Milgram’s obedience experiments, genocide studies, and the epistemology of conspiracy theories. He teaches at Toulouse II-Jean Jaurès University and is affiliated with two research laboratories: one in psychology and the other in philosophy. He holds a PhD in the Philosophy of Science and a Master Degree in Sociology.

Constructivism or Epistemic Advantage, But Not Both: (Not) Solving the Circularity Problem

Published on 5 May 2025

by Claudio Cormick Valeria Edelsztein a Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas (IIF)-Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico (SADAF)/Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentinab Centro de Formación e Investigación en Enseñanza de las Ciencias (CEFIEC), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentinac Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, ArgentinaClaudio Cormick holds a Bachelor’s and Ph.D. in Philosophy (University of Buenos Aires/Paris 8), is an assistant researcher at CONICET, and a teacher in the Philosophy department at the University of Buenos Aires. He is the author of over 40 articles in Spanish, English, and French, published in Science and Education, Chiasmi, Alter, Bulletin d’Analyse Phénoménologique, Manuscrito, Daimon, Principia, Análisis Filosófico, and Alternatives. He has written two books, the second one co-authored with Valeria Edelsztein. In the last years, he has written (mostly in collaboration with Edelsztein) about anti-scientific discourses, doxastic voluntarism and standpoint epistemology.Valeria Edelsztein holds a Bachelor’s and Ph.D. in Chemistry (University of Buenos Aires) and a Diploma in Science Education (FLACSO). She is a researcher at CONICET, author of over 30 articles about science education, chemistry and epistemology, in Science and Education, Astronomy Education Journal, Journal of Chemical Education, International Journal of Science Education, Chemistry Teacher International, Journal of Material Chemistry, Principia, Daimon and Manuscrito. Her research and popularization work in the last years has focused on (1) the intersection of epistemology, science education and feminism and (2) an interdisciplinary approach to the problem of anti-scientific discourses (flat-Eartherism, anti-vaxxerism, AGW denialism, astrology), with resources from science education research, social epistemology and cognitive psychology—and an exploration of the relationship between science and the international advancement of the far right. She has also worked as a host, columnist, and scientific advisor for various TV shows, radio programs, and print and digital media. She is the author of textbooks and more than 15 science popularization books.

Language in the Godless Age of AI

Published on 29 Apr 2025

by Radek Schuster Hamid R. Ekbia a Department of Philosophy, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republicb Autonomous Systems Policy Institute, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USARadek Schuster (PhD) is the deputy head of the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. His research focuses on analytic philosophy and the philosophy of language, especially Wittgenstein’s works; the philosophy and history of science, particularly the legacy of the Vienna Circle; and the philosophy of technology, primarily in relation to machine learning and artificial intelligence. He delights in exploring various paradoxes and illusions.Hamid R. Ekbia (PhD) is University Professor and Director of the Autonomous Systems Policy Institute at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. His research focuses on the political economy of AI and computing, and how technologies mediate socio-economic, cultural, and geopolitical relations of modern societies.

Taking Virtuous Acts, not Virtuous Traits, as Evaluatively and Conceptually Primary

Published on 28 Apr 2025

by Nastasia Müller Department of Philosophy, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, GermanyNastasia Müller is a postdoctoral researcher at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and a member of the DFG-funded research project “Cognitive Rational Reconstruction.” Previously, she held a position at Humboldt University of Berlin. Her research interests include epistemology, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics.

Intellectual Hubris and Moral Opprobrium

Published on 28 Apr 2025

by Geoffrey M. Cox Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USAGeoffrey M Cox, PhD is a Lecturer at the Graduate School of Education, Stanford University.

Human-Data Coupling: Informational Personhood & Artificial Intelligence Through Gilbert Simondon’s Philosophy of Technology

Published on 24 Apr 2025

by Colin Koopman Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USAColin Koopman is Professor of Philosophy and Director of New Media & Culture at the University of Oregon. His most recent research is a forthcoming book titled Data Equals: Democratic Equality and Technological Hierarchy (University of Chicago Press, 2025). Other recent work includes How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person (University of Chicago Press, 2019) and ‘Artificing intelligence: from isolating IQ to amoral AI’ in AI & Society (Dec. 2024). He has published articles in a range of philosophical and interdisciplinary venues including Critical Inquiry, Journal of the History of Philosophy, and Political Theory. Prior to his recent work on data, he concentrated on issues in philosophical methodology, especially genealogy and pragmatism, as represented in Genealogy as Critique (University of Indiana Press, 2013) and Pragmatism as Transition (Columbia University Press, 2009). He has written two pieces for The New York Times, where he was also interviewed by David Marchese in March of 2023 in a piece titled ‘Your Data is Diminishing Your Freedom.’

Understanding Prosperity in Contemporary Debates: Epistemological Considerations

Published on 22 Apr 2025

by Nikolay Mintchev Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London, London, UKNikolay Mintchev is Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London.

A Reidian Transcendental Argument Against Skepticism

Published on 22 Apr 2025

by Benjamin W. McCraw Department of History, Political Science, Philosophy and American Studies, University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, SC, USABenjamin W. McCraw is Instructor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina Upstate. He works in epistemology and philosophy of religion. He has published articles in journals including Faith and Philosophy, Acta Analytica, Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, Religious Studies, and Philosophia, and has authored or edited books with Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, and Wiley-Blackwell. Correspondence to: Benjamin W. McCraw, History, Political Science, Philosophy, and American Studies, University of South Carolina Upstate, 800 University Way, Spartanburg, SC 29303, USA.

AI-Extended Moral Agency?

Published on 16 Apr 2025

by Pii Telakivi Tomi Kokkonen Raul Hakli Pekka Mäkelä a Department of Practical Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finlandb Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FinlandPii Telakivi is a post-doctoral researcher in RADAR: Robophilosophy, AI Ethics, and Datafication Research at the University of Helsinki, and in Temporality in Predictive Processing at the University of Turku. Her research focuses on extended, embodied cognition, exploring the intersections between philosophy of mind, technology, AI, and psychiatry. Her monograph “Extending the Extended Mind: From Cognition to Consciousness” was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2023. Her recent academic appointments include a Fulbright Scholarship at UC Berkeley (2022–2023) and visiting scholarships at Macquarie University in Sydney (March 2024) and at the University of Amsterdam (2025–2027).Tomi Kokkonen works as a University Lecturer in theoretical philosophy at the University of Helsinki. His research interests are in philosophy of science (especially in the issues emerging in the intersections between biology, psychology and social sciences), philosophy of technology (especially metaphysical, conceptual and normative issues related to technology as a part of social practices, as well as the possibility and nature of artificial mental phenomena), philosophy of mind, and philosophy of sociality. His PhD thesis (2021) was on the evolutionary explanations of human sociality. His current research involves ethical and societal issues related to AI and robotics as well as the possibility of moral machines.Raul Hakli works as a university researcher in practical philosophy at the University of Helsinki. He did his PhD thesis in 2010 on the nature and logic of group beliefs. He has worked for several years on issues of collective intentionality, social ontology, and collective epistemology, and recently, his focus has been on philosophy of technology, in particular responsibility issues stemming from technologies like AI and robotics. He is co-leader of the research group RADAR together with Pekka Mäkelä, and he has lead research projects on the topic of responsible AI. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Springer series Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality.Pekka Mäkelä is the vice-director and a research coordinator in the Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities (HSSH) at the University of Helsinki. His research interests are in normative dimensions of collective and social action, e.g. collective responsibility and trust, social ontology, the philosophy of the social sciences, and philosophical problems of social robotics and human-robot interaction. He has been a visiting fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and ANU, Canberra, Australia, and he has also taught as an adjunct teacher at FSU, Florida, USA. His publications include “The collectivist approach to collective moral responsibility” (with Seumas Miller, Metaphilosophy, 2005), “Collective Agents and Moral Responsibility” (Journal of Social Philosophy, 2007), Trust: Analytic and Applied Perspectives (ed. With Cynthia Townley, VIBS, RoDoPi, 2013), “Group Agents and Their Responsibility (with Raimo Tuomela, Journal of Ethics, 2016), “A realist account of the ontology of impairment” (with Simo Vehmas, Journal of Medical Ethics, 2008), and “Moral Responsibility of Robots and Hybrid Agents” (with Raul Hakli, The Monist 2019). Presently, he is co-leader of the RADAR group together with Raul Hakli.

Rachel Armstrong’s Response to Laura Tripaldi’s ‘Softness: An Ecological Paradigm for Embodied Technological Intelligence’

Published on 15 Apr 2025

by Rachel Armstrong Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven, Ghent, BelgiumRachel Armstrong, ZAP professor of design-driven construction for regenerative architecture, EIC Ambassador, Coordinator of Microbial Hydroponics: Circular Sustainable Electrobiosynthesis (2023–2027) for the EIC Pathfinder Challenges Carbon Dioxide and Nitrogen Valorisation and Management Portfolio.

Epistemic Distance and Antidemocratic Conspiracy Theories

Published on 11 Apr 2025

by Massimo Caon Department of History, Humanities and Society, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, ItalyMassimo Caon, is currently a social-philosophical sciences PhD student at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. His main research project is about the systemic turn in contemporary deliberative theory. Other research areas he is currently delving into include applied epistemology and the relation between democratic theory and critical geopolitics. Before joining Tor Vergata University’s PhD program, he received a MA cum laude in Philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome.

Talking to Myself: AI and Self-Knowledge

Published on 3 Apr 2025

by Marya Schechtman Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois, Chicago, USAMarya Schechtman is LAS Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and a member of the Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She received her PhD in philosophy from Harvard University in 1988. Her research focus is personal identity and the self, with special emphasis on the intersection of metaphysical, empirical, and ethical questions. She is the author of The Constitution of Selves (Cornell University Press 1996), Staying Alive: Personal Identity, Practical Concerns and the Unity of a Life (Oxford University Press 2014), and The Self a Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press 2024), as well as numerous articles and chapters on self, identity, memory, and mind. She is past President of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association (2023-2024).

Expert Authority and Its Assessment

Published on 3 Apr 2025

by Arnon Keren Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa, Haifa, IsraelArnon Keren is Associate Professor and Head of Department at the Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa. He works on a wide range of issue in social epistemology, philosophy of science, and bioethics. Much of his work in social epistemology focuses on the epistemology of testimony, epistemic trust, epistemic authority, science and democracy and trust and distrust in science.

Hinge Epistemology: Why Choose?

Published on 31 Mar 2025

by Jordi Fairhurst Departamento de Filosofía y Trabajo Social, Universidad de las Islas Baleares, Palma de Mallorca (Islas Baleares), SpainJordi Fairhurst Chilton is an Assistant Professor at the Universitat de les Illes Balears and co-founder of the Young Network for Wittgensteinian Philosophy (alongside José Antonio Pérez-Escobar and Deniz Sarikaya). His research interests mainly concern deep disagreements (how they should be defined and studied, what contributions they may offer to scientific/moral progress and how they relate to epistemic/linguistic injustice), hinge epistemology (meta-philosophical issues, its application to mathematics and ethics, and its connection to social epistemology) and meta-ethics (the meta-ethical implications of moral expressivism).

Reframing Metanarratives on Africa and the Caribbean Through Decolonial Pedagogy: Duoethnography as Embodied Methodology

Published on 27 Mar 2025

by Mary Goitom Shamette Hepburn School of Social Work, York University, Toronto, CanadaMary Goitom is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Work, York University. Dr. Goitom’s research explores migration, mobilities, diasporic connections, transnational processes and social relations. Her work is centered on community-based research and is grounded in Ethiopian epistemologies and larger African traditional knowledge systems. Dr. Goitom’s work explores transnational social fields in relation to the constitution of settlement, citizenship, well-being, agency, resilience and identity making.Shamette Hepburn is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Work, York University, Canada. Dr. Hepburn’s scholarship is grounded in post-critical theories, visual methods, community-engaged fieldwork, and intervention research. Her work explores ageing, migration, community education, later-life learning, post-retirement care, and an array of settlement processes and experiences at the distal end of the migratory life course.

Critically Unpacking the Concept of Equity for Open Science

Published on 27 Mar 2025

by Louise Bezuidenhout CWTS (Center for Science and Technology Studies), Leiden University, Leiden, NetherlandsLouise Bezuidenhout is a social science researcher who specializes on issues relating to Open Science, data sharing and access. Her research is broadly oriented around themes such as justice and access, inclusion and marginalization and equity. Much of her work to date has concentrated on identifying ways to improve the inclusion of low/middle-income country researchers into the Open Science landscape. She is a senior researcher at the CWTS Center for Science and Technology Studies at the University of Leiden in The Netherlands.

Mind Design, AI Epistemology, and Outsourcing

Published on 27 Mar 2025

by Steven Gubka Garrett Mindt Susan Schneider Philosophy, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USASteven Gubka is a postdoctoral associate at the Humanities Research Center at Rice University. He works on philosophy of emotion and AI ethics. He is currently writing about the ethics of using AI for emotional work, including emotion recognition and emotional writing.Garrett Mindt is an assistant professor of philosophy at Florida Atlantic University. He works on philosophy of mind, philosophy and science of consciousness, philosophy of science, artificial intelligence, and philosophy of technology. He is currently writing a book about the relationship between ontology of mind, trends in AI and technology, and our descent into technofascism.Susan Schneider is the William F. Dietrich Distinguished Professor and founding director of the Center for the Future Mind at Florida Atlantic University. She works on philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence. She is currently writing a book on the shape of intelligent systems.

In Defense of Robust Moral Encroachment

Published on 27 Mar 2025

by Alexandra Lloyd Department of Philosophy & Religion, University of Tampa, Tampa, USAAlexandra Lloyd is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tampa. Her research takes place at the intersection of ethics and epistemology, and investigates the role of outright belief across a variety of domains.

It’s a Shame That You Can’t Afford Rent, But We Can Offer Epistemic Compensation. On Relating Epistemic and Social Justice

Published on 25 Mar 2025

by David Ludwig Knowledge Technology and Innovation (KTI), Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, NetherlandsDavid Ludwig is a philosopher and transdisciplinary researcher focused on questions of social-environmental change. He is an associate professor at the Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation (KTI) Group of Wageningen University and Research (WUR). He is also a Principal Investigator of the Global Epistemologies and Ontologies (GEOS) project that investigates foundational questions of inclusive and community-based science through action research in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Core Books: Transformative Transdisciplinarity. An Introduction to Community-Based Philosophy, 2025, Oxford University Press. Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science, 2021, Routledge. Implementing responsible research and innovation: Organisational and national conditions, Springer, 2021.

AI and Epistemic Agency: How AI Influences Belief Revision and Its Normative Implications

Published on 18 Mar 2025

by Mark Coeckelbergh Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaMark Coeckelbergh is a full Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the Philosophy of Department of the University of Vienna. He is also ERA Chair at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague and Guest Professor at WASP-HS and University of Uppsala. Previously he was the President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT). His expertise focuses on ethics and technology, in particular robotics and artificial intelligence. He is a member of various entities that support policy building in the area of robotics and artificial intelligence, such as the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence, the Expert Council Ethics of AI of the Austrian UNESCO Commission, the Austrian Council on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, and the Austrian Advisory Council on Automated Mobility. He is University of Vienna’s Circle U. Academic Chair for Artificial Intelligence. He is the author of 17 philosophy books and numerous articles and is involved in several national and European research projects on AI and robotics.

Epistemic Paternalism and Protective Authority in a Non-Ideal World

Published on 14 Mar 2025

by Pedro Schmechtig Department of Philosophy, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, GermanyPedro Schmechtig is a research associate and lecturer at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Technology in Dresden. His research interests include social epistemology (especially epistemic values and goals, assurance and testimonial authority, non-ideal epistemology, interrogative forms of knowledge), social ontology (persistence of ordinary objects and spacetime), philosophy of language (propositional attitudes and speech acts).

Mind-Technology Problems for Know-How Anti-Intellectualism

Published on 11 Mar 2025

by Gloria Andrada J. Adam Carter a Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugalb COGITO Epistemology Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UKGloria Andrada is an FCT Researcher at NOVA Institute of Philosophy (IfilNOVA), Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She works mainly in philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, and epistemology. Her research focuses on abilities and skills, and on the relation between culture and cognition. She’s particularly interested in human cognition and contemporary technologies.J. Adam Carter is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, where he co-directs the Cogito Epistemology Research Centre; he works mainly in epistemology, including on virtue epistemology, know-how, and knowledge and action. His recent books include Autonomous Knowledge (OUP, 2022), Stratified Virtue Epistemology (CUP, 2023), A Telic Theory of Trust (OUP 2024), Knowing How and Learning How (w/ T. Kearl, CUP, 2025) and Epistemology in the Subpersonal Vale (w/ R. Rupert, OUP, 2025).

The Transmission of Knowledge via Large-Scale Technology: A Shared Agency Account

Published on 10 Mar 2025

by John Greco Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USAJohn Greco is the Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt L.C.H.S Chair in Philosophy at Georgetown University. He is the author of Putting Skeptics in Their Place: The Nature of Skeptical Arguments and Their Role in Philosophical Inquiry (Cambridge 2000); Achieving Knowledge: A Virtue-theoretic Account of Epistemic Normativity (Cambridge 2010); and The Transmission of Knowledge (Cambridge 2020).

Three People Make a Tiger: the Illusory Truth Effect is Detrimental to a Network’s Likelihood of Reaching True Beliefs

Published on 10 Mar 2025

by Nathan Gabriel Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USANathan Gabriel is a philosopher and social scientist. They have published on signaling content, how confirmation bias affects group learning, and racial discrimination in ‘Pyow-Hack: Ordered Compositions in Lewis-Skyrms Signaling Games’ (Erkenntnis 2023), ‘Can Confirmation Bias Improve Group Learning?’ (co-authored with Cailin O’Connor, Philosophy of Science 2024), and ‘On the stability of racial capitalism’ (co-authored with Liam K Bright, Cailin O’Connor, and Olúfémi O. Táíwò, Ergo forthcoming) respectively. A unifying theme in this research is the investigation of how cognitive biases influence individual and collective behavior. Nathan has general research interests in understanding domain general learning mechanisms in the context of cultural, mind, language, and information.

Obstetric Violence: An Epistemic Repair of the Construct

Published on 25 Feb 2025

by Sumayya Ebrahim Department of Psychology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South AfricaSumayya Ebrahim is both an academic and a practitioner of psychology. She is currently based at the University of Johannesburg where she has developed an extensive portfolio of research and clinical supervision. She is extensively involved in post graduate teaching and profession training of psychologists. Dr. Ebrahim’s primary interests are in media representations of gender, sexuality, the body and in representations of freedom fighters in a post-colonial context.

When is it Rational to Distrust Scientists?

Published on 18 Feb 2025

by Sally Geislar Bennett Holman a Environmental Studies, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN, USAb History and Philosophy of Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, South KoreaSally Geislar is an assistant professor of Environmental Studies at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work examines the social dimensions of policy, science, and the built environment.Bennett Holman is an associate professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. His work focuses on areas of science that are heavily influenced by non-truth-seeking incentives.

Fake Authority Country: Epistemic Responsibility and the Normativity of Expertise

Published on 14 Feb 2025

by Jamie Carlin Watson Department of Bioethics, Cleveland Clinic Center for Bioethics, Cleveland, OH, USAJamie Carlin Watson is Associate Staff Bioethicist at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Bioethics, where he works as a clinical ethics consultant and teaches in the medical school. His primary research is in expertise studies and clinical ethics. He is the author of Expertise: A Philosophical Introduction (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) and A History and Philosophy of Expertise: The Nature and Limits of Authority (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022).

Democratizing Expertise: The Epistemic Approach

Published on 12 Feb 2025

by Cathrine Holst Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, Oslo, NorwayCathrine Holst is Professor in the Philosophy of Science and Democracy at the University of Oslo. Among her research interests are democratic theory, political epistemology, and public policy. In her work, Holst often combines normative and empirical analyses, and she has been a leader in several larger research projects on the role of expert knowledge in policy-making and democracy, including the ongoing project The influence of experts on public policy (INFLUEX 2023-2027). Holst’s most recent book (co-authored with Johan Christensen and Anders Molander) is Expertise, Policy-Making and Democracy (Routledge, 2022). Among her most recent articles are “Worries about philosopher experts”, Res Publica (2024); (with Johan Christensen) “The epistemic quality of expert bodies: from normative-theoretical concept to empirical measurement”, Acta Politica (2023); (with Silje Langvatn) “Expert accountability: what is it, why is it challenging – and is it what we need?” Constellations (2023); (with Torbjørn Gundersen) “Trusted, but not trustworthy? Science advice in an environment of trust”, Social Epistemology (2022); (with Anders Molander) “Epistemic democracy and the role of experts”, Contemporary Political Theory (2019); and (with Johan Christensen and Eva Krick) ‘Between “scientisation” and a “participatory turn”: Tracing shifts in the governance of policy advice’, Science and Public Policy (2019).

Testimonial Authority and Knowledge Transmission

Published on 7 Feb 2025

by Christoph Jäger Nicholas Shackel a Department of Philosophy, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austriab Department of Philosophy, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UKChristoph Jäger is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Innsbruck. His reserach areas include social epistemology, general epistemology, and the philosophy of religion. He has published numerous articles in books and journals, including Philosophical Studies, Analysis, Religious Studies, and Synthese.Nicholas Shackel is Professor of Philosophy, Cardiff University and Distinguished Research Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford University. His research is mainly on paradoxes and rationality. He has published numerous articles in books and leading journals including Journal of Philosophy, Mind, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

Vygotsky on Method and the Education of the Children with Disabilities: Building the Science of the Constitution of Consciousness

Published on 3 Feb 2025

by Siyaves Azeri Faculty of Theatre and Film, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaSiyaves Azeri is an associate professor of philosophy at the Faculty of Theatre and Film, Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj- Napoca, Romania. Azeri is the primary investigator of the project “Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis” (F104/15.11.2022), which is funded by the European Resilience Fund. He is also the Co-Editor in Chief of the journal Marxism & Sciences and an associate of the “Theses Twelve: Mardin Value-form Circle.” Azeri writes on a large gamut of subjects in different international journals and books. His areas of interest include Marxian materialism, the critique of epistemology, the problem of consciousness, philosophical psychology, Kant’s transcendentalism and Hume’s empiricism.

On the Censorship of Conspiracy Theories

Published on 30 Jan 2025

by Fred Matthews Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, Bristol, UKFred Matthews is studying for a PhD in philosophy at the University of Bristol, specialising in moral and political philosophy. He previously completed an MPhil in political theory at the University of Oxford, and a BA in philosophy at the University of East Anglia. His research interests include general political philosophy, liberalism, applied epistemology, and environmental ethics.

Deferring to Experts and Thinking for Oneself

Published on 22 Jan 2025

by Thomas Grundmann Department of Philosophy, University of Cologne, Cologne, GermanyThomas Grundmann is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cologne, Germany. From 2016 until 2018, he was president of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP). He has published numerously on topics from general epistemology (skepticism, epistemic concepts, apriori knowledge), philosophical methodology (thought experiments, transcendental arguments), and applied social epistemology, e.g., disagreement and epistemic authority. He is currently writing a book on the Epistemology of Journalism. His recent books include Experimental Philosophy and Its Critics (Ed., Routledge 2012); Analytische Einführung in die Erkenntnistheorie (De Gruyter 2017), Philosophische Wahrheitstheorien (Reclam 2018), The Epistemology of Fake News (Ed., Oxford University Press 2021); The Epistemology of Experts (Ed., forthcoming with Routledge); Expert Authority and the Limits of Critical Thinking (forthcoming with Oxford University Press).

ChatGPT, Education, and Understanding

Published on 21 Jan 2025

by Federica Isabella Malfatti Department for Christian Philosophy, Theological Faculty, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, AustriaFederica Isabella Malfatti is Assistant Professor at the Department for Christian Philosophy of the University of Innsbruck. She works at the intersection between social epistemology and the philosophy of science.

Artificial Epistemic Authorities

Published on 14 Jan 2025

by Rico Hauswald Department of Philosophy, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, GermanyRico Hauswald is a private lecturer at the Department of Philosophy at the Technische Universität Dresden. His work focuses on social epistemology, philosophy of science, social ontology, philosophy of medicine, and philosophy of artificial intelligence. He is currently PI of the BMBF-funded project ‘Dealing responsibly with AI-assisted systems in medicine – epistemological aspects’.

Softness: An Ecological Paradigm for Embodied Technological Intelligence

Published on 14 Jan 2025

by Laura Tripaldi Department of Interactive Media Arts, NYU Shanghai, Shanghai, ChinaLaura Tripaldi is a Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor and Researcher in Residence of Interactive Media Arts at NYU Shanghai. Her research focuses on the interface of science, technology, and philosophy, focusing on materiality, its cultural implications, and its technological futures.

Truth as Force: A Materialist Picture

Published on 26 Dec 2024

by Frieder Vogelmann Philosophy Department, University College Freiburg, Freiburg, GermanyFrieder Vogelmann is professor for epistemology and theory of science at the University of Freiburg. His research focus is on political epistemology, including both theoretical investigations of basic concepts as well as concrete phenomena like the rise of untruth in politics or the role of scientific practices in democracy. Recent books on these topics are Umkämpfte Wissenschaften – zwischen Idealisierung und Verachtung (Reclam 2023) and Die Wirksamkeit des Wissens. Eine politische Epistemologie (Suhrkamp 2022).

Phronetic Risk in Research Agenda Setting – the Case of Nutrition Science and Public Health

Published on 16 Dec 2024

by Saana Jukola a Department of Philosophy I, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germanyb Section Philosophy, University of Twente, Enschede, the NetherlandsSaana Jukola is Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Health and Technology at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. She is a philosopher of science focused on the philosophy of health sciences and social epistemology. She is particularly interested in how epistemic and non-epistemic (e.g., social and institutional) factors intertwine in the production of knowledge and has worked on topics such as commercialization of research, standards of evidence in nutrition science, and biases in forensic medicine.

Exempting Oneself from Knowing Better. Epistemic Laziness and Conspiracy Theories

Published on 12 Dec 2024

by Dominik Jarczewski Department of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, PolandDominik Jarczewski is Research Assistant in the Department of Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. His research focuses on virtue and social epistemology.

Trust in a Social and Digital World

Published on 18 Nov 2024

by Mark Alfano Colin Klein a Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australiab Philosophy, Australian National University, Canberra, AustraliaMark Alfano works in philosophy (epistemology, moral psychology), social science (personality & social psychology), and applied issues in the normativity of technology (epistemology and ethics of algorithms, natural language processing & generation). He also brings digital humanities methods to bear on both contemporary problems and the history of philosophy (especially Nietzsche).Colin Klein is Professor in the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He works on philosophy of mind, especially the nature of pain and animal cognition. He also conducts research in epistemology, especially the dark side of social epistemology (e.g., unwarranted conspiracy theories, misinformation, and the dispositions of the people who propagate these.

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Vices of Distrust

Published on 18 Nov 2024

by J. Adam Carter Daniella Meehan a College of Arts, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UKb Philosophy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UKJ. Adam Carter is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, where he works mainly in epistmemology.Daniella Meehan completed her PhD at the University of Glasgow in 2024. She is interested in social epistemology, applied epistemology and epistemic blame.

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Critical Social Epistemology of Social Media and Epistemic Virtues

Published on 28 Oct 2024

by Lukas Schwengerer Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften, Institut für Philosophie, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, GermanyLukas Schwengerer is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Duisburg–Essen and the primary investigator for the DFG project ‘Collective Self-Knowledge’. He primarily works on topics in the intersection of epistemology and philosophy of mind, with a particular interest in how anti-individualist approaches in the philosophy of mind impact epistemological questions.

Individual Vices and Institutional Failings as Drivers of Vulnerabilisation

Published on 21 Oct 2024

by Havi Carel Ian James Kidd a Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, Bristol, Irelandb Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, IrelandHavi Carel is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol. She studies the experience of illness using phenomenology, a philosophical approach that studies how we encounter the world and other people. She also works on a range of topics in philosophy of medicine and healthcare. She is the author of many articles as well as books including Illness: The Cry of the Flesh (Routledge 2018) and Phenomenology of Illness (Oxford 2018).Ian James Kidd is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. He works on topics in social epistemology, philosophy of illness and healthcare and virtue and vice theory. His current project is a book on misanthropy. His co-edited volumes include Vice Epistemology with Heather Battaly and Quassim Cassam (Routledge 2020) and The Routledge Handbook to Epistemic Injustice with José Medina and Gaile Pohlhaus Jr. (Routledge 2017).

Life, Mind and Matter: Chemistry for an Ecological Era

Published on 15 Oct 2024

by Rachel Armstrong Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas, Brussels, BelgiumRachel Armstrong is a professor of Design Driven Construction for Regenerative Architecture. Her research applies biological insights and the origin of life theories to material practices to advance the next generation of sustainable interventions for human development to generate positive environmental impacts.

Epistemic Caring: An Ethical Approach for the Co-Constitution of Knowledge in Participatory Research Practice

Published on 14 Oct 2024

by Katharina Block Institute of Social Sciences, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, GermanyKatharina Block is Professor for Sociological Theories at the University of Rostock. She holds a PhD in Philosophy and she was Assistant Professor for Social Theory at the University of Oldenburg. Her research interests include the epistemological foundations of sociological theories and their further development in the context of the Anthropocene debate. She works with approaches of environmental humanities, philosophical anthropology and more and other than modern epistemologies.

Aesthetic Resistance: Reimagining Critical Epistemology and the Grammars of Silence

Published on 14 Oct 2024

by José Medina a Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USAb African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (ACEPS) at the University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

Linguistic Hermeneutical Injustice

Published on 9 Oct 2024

by Martina Rosola Department of Philosophy, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, SpainMartina Rosola is a Juan de la Cierva fellow at the University of Barcelona (2024–2026). She is specialized in philosophy of language, with a focus on social justice. Her main interest is the role of language in systems of injustice and how it can serve to either perpetuate or dismantle them. Within this perspective, she has worked on generics, the linguistic form stereotypes typically take and she is currently working on gender-fair language. She obtained a PhD in Philosophy in 2021 with a thesis on generics. In 2022, her dissertation won the 2020–2021 award for best PhD thesis in Philosophy of the Università di Genova. During her PhD, she spent visiting periods at the University of Sheffield (2018–2019) and Waterloo, Canada (2020). After the PhD, she was post-doctoral fellow at Università di Genova (2022) and Università del Piemonte Orientale (2023). She has also been an adjunct professor at Università di Milano (2021–2024) and collaborated with Università di Brescia (2022–2023) on sexism in language.

On Aesth-ethic Activism as Epistemic Resistance in Conversation with José Medina

Published on 4 Oct 2024

by María Del Rosario Acosta López Hispanic Studies, University of California, Riverside, CA, USAMaría del Rosario Acosta López is Professor at the Department of Hispanic Studies and Cooperating Faculty in the Department of Philosophy in UC Riverside. She teaches and conducts research on aesthetics, critical theory, political philosophy and decolonial studies, with emphasis on questions of memory and trauma in the Americas. Her most recent publications are devoted to aesthetics of resistance in Latin American art, decolonial perspectives on memory and history, epistemic injustice, and epistemic violence. She has recently co-edited volumes on F. Schiller (SUNY 2018), critique in German philosophy from Kant to the present (SUNY 2020), transitional justice in Colombia (Planeta 2023) and politics of memory in Colombia (World Humanities Report 2023). Her most recent book is titled Grammars of Listening: Philosophical Approaches to Memory after Trauma (forthcoming in Spanish with Herder and in preparation in English for Fordham). She is also working on the final editions of two manuscripts, one in Spanish on community in Hegel, Nancy, Esposito and Agamben (Narrativas de la comunidad: de Hegel a los pensadores impolíticos, in preparation for Ediciones Macul) and one in English, The Unstoppable Murmur of Being-Together, co-authored with Jean-Luc Nancy and the Group on Law and Violence (in preparation for Fordham).

The Triviality Worry About Gender Terms and Epistemic Injustice

Published on 4 Oct 2024

by Stina Björkholm Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, SwedenStina Björkholm is a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. Her research interests broadly concern social, political and moral aspects of language. She defended her PhD thesis at Stockholm University in 2022 on hybrid theories about the meanings of moral expressions. Her current research project is about implicit bias and discrimination, focusing on how language can enforce, sustain and create unjust social norms and structures.

Rejecting Identities: Stigma and Hermeneutical Injustice

Published on 4 Oct 2024

by Alexander Edlich Alfred Archer a Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, and Religious Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germanyb Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The NetherlandsAlexander Edlich is a postdoctoral researcher at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich where he completed his PhD in 2023. He works on moral responsibility (specifically blame, protest and apology), the philosophy of emotions and feminist and LGBTQ ethics.Alfred Archer is an associate professor of philosophy at Tilburg University. He works on ethics, social philosophy, moral psychology and the philosophy of sport. He is the co-author of Honouring and Admiring the Immoral: An Ethical Guide (Routledge 2021), Why It’s Ok to be a Sports Fan (Routledge 2024) and Extravagance and Misery: The Emotional Regime of Market Societies (Oxford University Press 2024).

Ethnocentric Universalism: Its Nature, Epistemic Harm, and Emancipatory Prospects

Published on 2 Oct 2024

by Paul O. Irikefe Philosophy, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USAPaul O. Irikefe is a President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of Philosophy, UC Irvine. He is also a research associate at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa (African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science). His research interests include epistemology, metaphilosophy, indigenous epistemology and philosophy, and African philosophy.

When Patient Voices Get Lost in Evidence Hierarchies: A Testimony of Rare Adverse Events and Participatory Epistemic Injustice in Drug Safety Monitoring

Published on 2 Oct 2024

by Rani Lill Anjum Christine Price Elena Rocca a Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management and School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Science, Ås, Norwayb Independent Scholarc Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, NorwayRani Lill Anjum is Research Professor of Philosophy at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, working on the philosophical foundation of scientific methods and practice. Together with Elena Rocca, she leads the interdisciplinary CauseHealth project: Causality, Complexity and Evidence for the Health Sciences. Their latest book is Philosophy of Science (Palgrave’s Philosophy Today series, 2024).Christine Price has been affected by back pain and sciatica, including neuropathic pain, since an injury in 2008. She is an active patient advocate and communicator. She sits on the Executive Committee of the Physiotherapy Pain Association. She has written several book chapters and published some articles, some solo authored and some co-authored. She has presented at several conferences, both national and international, and has been involved as a patient partner in several research projects. She has also helped set up patient partnership groups in both the NHS and at the AECC University and has been a guest on several podcasts and webinars.Elena Rocca is an Associate Professor in Pharmacy at the Faculty of Health Sciences of Oslo Metropolitan University. She specializes in issues related to responsible knowledge-based decision-making with focus on risk and safety of medicines, both from a practical, methodological and philosophical perspective. She is co-editor of the book Rethinking Causality, Complexity and Evidence for the Unique Patient (Springer Nature, 2020).

Digital Methods: An STS Challenge to Methodological Digitization in Social Science Research

Published on 2 Oct 2024

by Rahman Sharifzadeh Information and Society Research Department, Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (IranDoc), Tehran, IranRahman Sharifzadeh, serving as an assistant professor at the Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology, focuses his scholarly pursuits on science and technology studies (STS), as well as the history and philosophy of science and technology. His academic contributions extend to the ethics and methodology within these domains.

Peer Review and Natural-Like Social Relations of Production in Academia

Published on 1 Oct 2024

by Luis Arboledas-Lérida Department of Journalism I, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, SpainLuis Arboledas-Lérida is an independent postdoctoral researcher. He was recently awarded his doctorate certificate with a dissertation that obtained top marks (Excellent Cum Laude) addressing the historical specificity of science communication as a social practice. He has contributed several papers in internationally renowned journals that cover an ample range of topics, from scholarly communication to Marxian studies, to the Political Economy of Science and Technology. He has recently returned to the critique of science communication, and his most recent work focuses on how the public communication of science and technology reproduces, and serves to maintain/reinforce, certain ideological stances with respect to, e.g. nationalist ideologies or the legitimation at the social level of the commodification of science and academic research.

Meanings of Basqueness: An Account from Brandomian Inferentialism on Basque Identity and Its Evolution

Published on 1 Oct 2024

by Alberto Morán Roa Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, SpainAlberto Morán Roa is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), as part of the Research Project ‘Schematismus: Esquematismo, teoría de las categorías y mereología en la filosofía kantiana: una perspectiva fenomenológico-hermenéutica’ (MINECO PID2020-115142 GA-100; main researcher: Alba Jiménez Rodríguez), where he works on the role empirical concepts play in environments affected by extremism from the perspective of Brandomian inferentialism and the Kantian doctrine of schematism. He also researches the reception of Kant by new realism and speculative realism, and the relation between metaphysics, identity and conceptualization.

Infrastructures of Surveillance and Control in the Invisible City of Waste

Published on 1 Oct 2024

by Kevin Pijpers Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsKevin Pijpers is a social anthropologist of sorts, interested in social and environmental (in)justices. He looks at affective knowledge practices in the city, science and technology, health, archaeology, and policy and breakdown.

Hermeneutical Injustice, Nonbinary Gender Identities and Category Invalidation

Published on 30 Sep 2024

by Siiri Porkkala Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, FinlandSiiri Porkkala is a doctoral researcher at Tampere University. Their research focuses on social ontology and feminist social epistemology.

Institutional Epistemic Isolation in Psychiatric Healthcare

Published on 30 Sep 2024

by Lucienne Jeannette Spencer Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKLucienne Spencer is Postdoctoral Researcher in Mental Health Ethics located within the Neuroscience, Ethics and Society (NEUROSEC) Team in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. Her research primarily focuses on phenomenology, epistemic injustice and the philosophy of psychiatry. She completed her SWW-DTP funded PhD in Philosophy at the University of Bristol in 2021. She was supervised by Prof. Havi Carel and Dr. Lisa El Refaie. Her thesis is entitled ‘Breaking the Silence: a Phenomenological Account of Epistemic Injustice and its Role in Psychiatry. She passed my viva with no corrections. She is also a member of the executive committee for the Society for Women in Philosophy, UK.

The Elusiveness of Hermeneutic Injustice in Psychiatric Categorizations

Published on 30 Sep 2024

by Miriam Solomon Department of Philosophy, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USAMiriam Solomon is Professor in the Philosophy Department at Temple University. She received her BA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and her PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University. She works in the areas of philosophy of science, philosophy of medicine, epistemology, feminist epistemology, and philosophy of science, and medical ethics. She is the author of Social Empiricism (MIT Press, 2001) and Making Medical Knowledge (OUP, 2015). She is also the editor of several special journal issues and many journal articles. She is a co-editor (with Jeremy Simon and Harold Kincaid) of the Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine (2017). Currently she is working on a book in the area of philosophy of psychiatry.

On Testimonial and Hermeneutical (In)justices in the Use of Trans Narratives in Bedrock Gender

Published on 25 Sep 2024

by Salla Aldrin Salskov Ryan Manhire a Minority Studies Profile, Åbo Akademi University, Abo, Finlandb Department of Philosophy, Åbo Akademi University, Abo, FinlandSalla Aldrin Salskov is a postdoctoral researcher in minority studies at Åbo Akademi University. She holds a PhD in philosophy and the title of Docent in Gender Studies. Her expertise includes feminist, queer, post- and decolonial theory and Wittgensteinian language and moral philosophy. Her research explores epistemic habits, critique and self-reflexivity in queer and feminist theory, focusing on theoretical investments and positionalities in gender studies. Her work has been published in Sexualities, NORMA, NORA, Feminist Encounters and Policy Futures in Education. She has co-edited special issues for Feminist Encounters and SQS-journal and is co-editor of Ethical Inquiries After Wittgenstein (Springer, 2022). In 2023, she was a recipient of the ‘Researcher of the Year’ award at Åbo Akademi University.Ryan Manhire completed his Cotutelle Doctorate Degree, titled Unravelling Moral Certainty: Having a Rough Story at Åbo Akademi University and Flinders University in 2022. His previous postdoctoral research projects include A Shifting Awareness: Thinking about Mortality During a Pandemic at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value, University of Pardubice, and the group project Ethical Explorations: Rethinking Our Sexual Relations (EEROS) at Åbo Akademi University. His current postdoctoral research project Deep Moral Disagreements on Sex and Gender (DMD-SG) is based at Åbo Akademi University. His research grounds philosophical investigations of moral certainty and deep moral disagreement in the contexts of contemporary issues concerning social inclusion and exclusion.

Interstitial Injustice

Published on 25 Sep 2024

by Ásta Department of Philosophy, Duke University, Durham, NC, USAÁsta is an Icelandic philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. She works mainly in metaphysics, feminist philosophy, social philosophy, and on related topics in epistemology and philosophy of language. She is the author of Categories We Live By: The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories (Oxford, 2018) and co-editor, with Kim Q. Hall, of The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Philosophy (2021). Her website is astaphilosophy.com.

Liminal Identities and Epistemic Injustice: Introduction to the Special Issue

Published on 25 Sep 2024

by Anna Boncompagni Annalisa Coliva Department of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, CA, USAAnna Boncompagni is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. She works on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, American pragmatism, and social and feminist epistemology, with a recent focus on LGBTQ perspectives. She is particularly interested in applying notions and insights from Wittgenstein and the pragmatists to contemporary issues, such as the nature of prejudice, common-sense beliefs, conceptual change, deep disagreement, and hermeneutical injustice. Among her publication are the monograph Wittgenstein and Pragmatism. On Certainty in the Light of Peirce and James (2016), the Cambridge Element Wittgenstein on Forms of Life (2022), and the articles “Hermeneutical Injustice and Bisexuality; Towards New Conceptual Tools” (Hypatia, 2024) and “Prejudice in Testimonial Justification: A Hinge Account” (Episteme, 2021).Annalisa Coliva is Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. She is editor-in-chief of the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy. She is the author (among other books) of Singular Thoughts: Perceptual-Demonstrative and I-Thoughts (with E. Sacchi, 2001), Moore and Wittgenstein: Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense (2010), Extended Rationality: A Hinge Epistemology (2015), The Varieties of Self-Knowledge (2016), Wittgenstein Rehinged: The Significance of On Certainty for Contemporary Epistemology (2022), as well as of Relativism (with Maria Baghramian, 2020) and Skepticism (with Duncan Pritchard, 2022). She has published widely in epistemology, especially on ‘hinge epistemology’ (a term she coined), the history of analytic philosophy (especially G. E. Moore, L. Wittgenstein and S. Stebbing) and in philosophy of mind (first-personal and demonstrative thoughts, concepts, perceptual content, Moore’s paradox and self-knowledge). She is currently working on a monograph on Social and Applied Hinge Epistemology, a Cambridge Element on Wittgenstein and Social Epistemology and she is editing (with L. Doulas) Analysis, Common Sense, and Public Philosophy: Themes from the Philosophy of Susan Stebbing.

Normative Paradigms and Interdisciplinary Research

Published on 25 Sep 2024

by Udo Pesch Nynke van Uffelen Department of Values of Technology and Innovation, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The NetherlandsUdo Pesch is associate professor of ethics and philosophy of technology at Delft University of Technology. His work is strongly interdisciplinary, combining insights from philosophy, innovation studies, STS, and institutional theory.Nynke van Uffelen is a postdoctoral researcher at Delft University of Technology. Her work is dedicated to energy justice, combining climate ethics and political philosophy.

Epistemic Injustice in the Medical Context: Introduction to Special Issue

Published on 24 Sep 2024

by Rena Goldstein Core Department, Flagler College, Saint Augustine, FL, USARena Beatrice Goldstein is currently a Postdoctoral Philosophy Teaching Fellow at Flagler College, and she will be transitioning to the Technical University of Munich in 2025. Her current research centers on the epistemic systems of 20th-century philosophers Quine and Wittgenstein as she works to apply their contributions to holistic systems with empirical accounts of bias.

Hysteria, Hermeneutical Injustice and Conceptual Engineering

Published on 24 Sep 2024

by Annalisa Coliva Department of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, CA, USAAnnalisa Coliva is Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. She is editor-in-chief of the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy. She is the author (among other books) of Singular Thoughts: Perceptual-Demonstrative and I-Thoughts (with E. Sacchi, 2001), Moore and Wittgenstein: Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense (2010), Extended Rationality: A Hinge Epistemology (2015), The Varieties of Self-Knowledge (2016), Wittgenstein Rehinged: The Significance of On Certainty for Contemporary Epistemology (2022), as well as of Relativism (with Maria Baghramian, 2020) and Skepticism (with Duncan Pritchard, 2022). She has published widely in epistemology, especially on ‘hinge epistemology’ (a term she coined), the history of analytic philosophy (especially G. E. Moore, L. Wittgenstein and S. Stebbing) and in philosophy of mind (first-personal and demonstrative thoughts, concepts, perceptual content, Moore’s paradox and self-knowledge). She is currently working on a monograph on Social and Applied Hinge Epistemology, a Cambridge Element on Wittgenstein and Social Epistemology and she is editing (with L. Doulas) Analysis, Common Sense, and Public Philosophy: Themes from the Philosophy of Susan Stebbing.

Epistemic Shortcuts and Unjust Diagnostic Practices

Published on 18 Sep 2024

by Natalia Nealon Department of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, CA, USANatalia Nealon is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Philosophy at University of California, Irvine. Her research interests are in epistemology, philosophy of cognitive science, and ethics.

Epistemic Privilege, Phenomenology and Symptomatology in Functional/Dissociative Seizures

Published on 18 Sep 2024

by Alistair Wardrope Heather Stewart a Department of Neurology, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UKb Department of Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UKc Department of Philosophy, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, UKAlistair Wardrope is a Higher Specialty Trainee in Neurology, Stroke, and General Internal Medicine at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and honorary clinical teacher and PhD candidate in Clinical Neurology at the University of Sheffield.Heather Stewart is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma State University, with research interests at the intersection of bioethics and philosophy of medicine, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of digital technologies and artificial intelligence. Heather has published peer-reviewed research articles in several top journals, including The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, and Perspectives on Psychological Science, and recently published her co-authored book, Microaggressions in Medicine (Oxford Press, 2024).

Mind the Guardrails: Epistemic Trespassing and Apt Deference

Published on 18 Sep 2024

by Neil Levy Russell Varley a Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australiab Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKc Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, AustraliaNeil Levy is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and a professor of philosophy at Macquarie University (Sydney). His most recent book is Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review (Cambridge University Press, 2023).Russell Varley is a Senior Policy Officer in the Queensland Public Service. He received his Ph.D. in social epistemology and political theory from the University of Queensland in 2023 and maintains research interests in the practical applications of social epistemology in the production of robust public policy. He regularly instructs large corporations, public agencies, and public policy graduates on the use of systems thinking methods for improving decision-making processes for complex problems.

Woman: Concept, Prototype and Stereotype

Published on 16 Sep 2024

by Annalisa Coliva Department of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, CA, USAAnnalisa Coliva is Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. She is editor-in-chief of the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy. She is the author (among other books) of Singular Thoughts: Perceptual-Demonstrative and I-Thoughts (with E. Sacchi, 2001), Moore and Wittgenstein: Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense (2010), Extended Rationality: A Hinge Epistemology (2015), The Varieties of Self-Knowledge (2016), Wittgenstein Rehinged: The Significance of On Certainty for Contemporary Epistemology (2022), as well as of Relativism (with Maria Baghramian, 2020) and Skepticism (with Duncan Pritchard, 2022). She has published widely in epistemology, especially on ‘hinge epistemology’ (a term she coined), the history of analytic philosophy (especially G. E. Moore, L. Wittgenstein and S. Stebbing) and in philosophy of mind (first-personal and demonstrative thoughts, concepts, perceptual content, Moore’s paradox and self-knowledge). She is currently working on a monograph on Social and Applied Hinge Epistemology, a Cambridge Element on Wittgenstein and Social Epistemology and she is editing (with L. Doulas) Analysis, Common Sense, and Public Philosophy: Themes from the Philosophy of Susan Stebbing.

The Exclusion Problem in Preclinical Studies: A Case of Epistemic Injustice?

Published on 13 Sep 2024

by Tanuj Raut Department of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, CA, USATanuj Raut is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Philosophy at University of California, Irvine. His research interests include epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy.

Challenging Prejudice as the Necessary Condition for Testimonial Injustice: Unveiling the Role of Epistemic Vice

Published on 11 Sep 2024

by YuLing Lin Faculty of Philosophy, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, ChinaYuLing Lin is a Joint-Supervision Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Philosophy of Xiamen University and the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Oxford. Her primary research interests lie in contemporary epistemology and experimental philosophy, with a special focus on epistemic injustice.

Towards a Capabilities Based Conception of Distributive Epistemic Justice

Published on 3 Sep 2024

by Sasha Mudd Hern n Bobadilla a Instituto de Filosof a Pontificia Universidad Cat lica de Chile Santiago Chileb Department of Mathematics Politecnico di Milano Milano ItalySasha Mudd received her PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge after earning an MA in Divinity from the University of Chicago She was a permanent lecturer at the University of Southampton before moving to Chile with her family in 2017 where she is now assistant professor of philosophy at Universidad Cat lica de Chile Her research focuses on Kant as well as topics in contemporary ethics political philosophy and social epistemology Her writing for popular audiences has appeared in New York Times Opinion among other outlets She writes a monthly column as the Philosopher at Large for Prospect Magazine Hern n Bobadilla is a philosopher of science and geologist who studies epistemological issues in the sciences e g surrogative reasoning with scientific models scientific explanations and understanding His current research deals with understanding under uncertainty in the context of detection and attribution in the climate sciences focused on the storyline approach to extreme weather and climate events He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Vienna He is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Mathematics Politecnico di Milano

Machine Advisors Integrating Large Language Models Into Democratic Assemblies

Published on 19 Aug 2024

by Petr peci n a Department of Philosophy Faculty of Economics Prague University of Economics and Business Prague Czechiab Department of Psychology and Life Sciences Faculty of Humanities Charles University Prague CzechiaPetr peci n is an assistant professor at Charles University and Prague University of Economics and Business in Czechia His interdisciplinary research explores the intersection of economics philosophy and political science focusing on epistemic democratization the relationship between democracy and expertise and the transformative potential of generative AI for political institutions His book Behavioral Political Economy and Democratic Theory Fortifying Democracy for the Digital Age published by Routledge examines the interplay between modern technology and human rationality within liberal democracies It advocates for a behaviorally grounded theory of democracy and explores how challenges such as disinformation and political polarization could be solved while preserving adherence to democratic values At Charles University Petr peci n leads a research group studying AI induced institutional transformations www institutional transformation ai

Conspiracy Theorists World and Genealogy

Published on 9 Jul 2024

by Nader Shoaibi Department of Philosophy Gonzaga University Spokane WA USANader Shoaibi is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Gonzaga Univeristy His research interests are in the foundations of epistemic normativity You can find out more about his research and teaching at https shoaibi notion site

How Partisanship Can Moderate the Influence of Communicated Information on the Beliefs of Agents Aiming to Form True Beliefs

Published on 2 Jul 2024

by Maarten van Doorn Taal amp Communicatie Radboud University Nijmegen The NetherlandsMaarten van Doorn work combines empirical studies focusing on aspects such as biases in our seemingly fallible thinking misinformation and motivated reasoning with philosophical arguments about rationality and social epistemology After the successful publication of his Dutch popular science book Waarom we beter denken dan we denken which was nominated for the Socratesbeker 2024 he s looking to further develop his writing and research possibly outside academia

Epistemic Domination and Gender Identity Fraud Prosecutions

Published on 20 Jun 2024

by Resa Philip Lunau Gender Studies Faculty of Social Sciences Georg August University G ttingen G ttingen GermanyResa Philip Lunau he him is a lecturer at the University of G ttingen He received his M A in Philosophy at the Free University Berlin in 2017 and his Bachelors in Cultural Studies and Philosophy at the Humboldt University Berlin in 2012

Epistemic Hubris

Published on 20 Jun 2024

by Francesca Pongiglione Faculty of Philosophy University Vita Salute San Raffaele Milano ItalyFrancesca Pongiglione is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of Vita Salute San Raffaele University where she is also the director of the European Centre for Social Ethics ECSE She obtained her PhD at the University of Bologna and held visiting positions at Feem Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Collegio Carlo Alberto the University of Glasgow and Boston University Her current research lies at the interplay between ethics and epistemology with a focus on climate change Her latest publications include The Epistemic Requirements of Solidarity Critical Horizons 2024 Climate Change and Human Rights Springer Handbook of the Philosophy of Climate Change 2023 Climate Change and Culpable Ignorance The Case of Pseudoscience with C Martini Social Epistemology 2022 She is local PI of the research project ENCOMPASS Engaging and orienting the young in the complexity of climate change and Sustainability to foster agency and deliberation in Societally relevant choices funded by MUR Italian Ministry for University and Research

Disagreement and Progress in Philosophy and in Empirical Sciences

Published on 18 Jun 2024

by I k Sar han Independent Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy Budapest HungaryI k Sar han is an independent postdoctoral researcher based in Budapest and Ankara His work on philosophy of mind and metaphilosophy has been published in Episteme Social Epistemology Ratio and European Journal of Analytic Philosophy He received his doctoral degree from Central European University in 2017 with a thesis that presented an internalist version of the strong representationalist theory of phenomenal consciousness He has recently presented a strategy of deflating the hard problem of consciousness by multiplying the explanatory gaps in the world with the help of a non reductive realist view of perceptible qualities and is currently working on an account of consciousness where experiential acquaintance is explained by epistemic relations to abstract entities In metaphilosophy he promotes the view that widespread peer agreement on philosophical truths requires substantial reforms in the social structure of academic research and advocates against publishing philosophical claims one does not believe He is a founding member of the experimental rock band Hayvanlar Alemi and runs the independent music label and concert organization initiative Inverted Spectrum Records

The Epistemic Import of Narratives

Published on 10 Jun 2024

by Merel Talbi Philosophy Department Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Amsterdam The NetherlandsMerel Talbi is a PhD candidate at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam working on epistemic diversity in the social and political epistemology of argumentation She has a background in philosophy political science and law and combines these disciplines into empirically informed and interdisciplinary work to address the question of how we might come to more inclusive and democratic ways of deliberating in the public sphere She also works as a lecturer at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Amsterdam where she teaches courses on philosophy interdisciplinarity and the social sciences

Beyond Infodemic Complexity Knowledge and Populism in COVID 19 Crisis Governance

Published on 4 Jun 2024

by Marko Luka Zub i Gabriele Giacomini a Department of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Rijeka Rijeka Croatiab Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage University of Udine Udine ItalyMarko Luka Zub i is a researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Center for Urban Transition Architecture and Urbanism at University of Rijeka His research focuses on institutional epistemology both in terms of fundamental research and in terms of applying the analytical and conceptual resources of institutional epistemology for interdisciplinary research in system design social analysis and communication sciences His work was published in Synthese Patterns of Prejudice Phenomenology and Mind Ethics and Politics and Philosophy and Society He is currently finishing a book on the epistemic effects of extreme socio economic inequalities Gabriele Giacomini graduated in Philosophy in Udine and at the University Vita Salute San Raffaele in Milan and holds a PhD in Neuroscience from San Raffaele in Milan and the IUSS in Pavia He then specialized in sociology and futures studies at the University of Trento and was a researcher for the Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe in Rijeka Croatia Today he is Assistant Professor at the University of Udine and collaborates with the Bassetti Foundation in Milan and the Italian Institute for the Future in Naples He has written articles published in Italian and international journals and his latest monographs are Il governo delle piattaforme I media digitali visti dagli italiani with Alex Buriani and The Arduous Road to Revolution Resisting Authoritarian Regimes in the Digital Communication Age His research interests lie at the intersection of political theory and communication sciences particularly regarding digital media

The Transmission of Cumulative Cultural Knowledge — Towards a Social Epistemology of Non-Testimonial Cultural Learning

Published on 31 May 2024

by Basil Müller Institute of Philosophy, University of Bern, Bern, SwitzerlandBasil Müller is a doctoral student at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Bern and a member of ZEGRA — the Zurich Epistemology Group on Rationality. His research interests are in epistemology and the philosophy of science.

On the Intellectual Vice of Epistemic Apathy

Published on 30 May 2024

by Lukas Schwengerer Alkis Kotsonis a Fakult t f r Geisteswissenschaften Institut f r Philosophie University of Duisburg Essen Essen Germanyb School of Education University of Glasgow Glasgow UKc Philosophy Department Deree The American College of Greece Athens GreeceLukas Schwengerer is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Duisburg Essen and the primary investigator for the DFG project Collective Self Knowledge He primarily works on topics in the intersection of epistemology and philosophy of mind with a particular interest in how anti individualist approaches in the philosophy of mind impact epistemological questions Alkis Kotsonis is an associate tutor at the University of Glasgow School of Education and a philosophy instructor at Deree The American College of Greece His research lies at the intersection of epistemology and education and focuses on the study of the concept of intellectual excellence and the development of new epistemological and educational theories of virtue

The University As Infrastructure of Becoming Re Activating Academic Freedom Through Humility in Times of Radical Uncertainty

Published on 29 May 2024

by Nicolas Zehner Francisco Dur n Del Fierro a Sociology Technical University Berlin Berlin Germanyb UCL Knowledge Lab University College London London UKNicolas Zehner is a postdoctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 1265 Re Figuration of Spaces at Technical University Berlin as well as associated researcher at Weizenbaum Institute Nicolas holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Edinburgh His research investigates the co constitutive relationship between scientific knowledge production and urban development with a particular focus on higher education institutions Francisco Dur n del Fierro is a research fellow at UCL Knowledge Lab He holds a PhD in Sociology of Knowledge from IOE UCL s Faculty of Education and Society Francisco s research focuses on subjectivity constitution within science communities using a conceptual framework that combines an epistemological and ethical perspective

Defending Autonomy as a Criterion for Epistemic Virtue

Published on 23 May 2024

by Sarah Wrighta University of Georgiab African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science University of JohannesburgSarah Wright is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia Her research focuses on the normative aspects of epistemology particularly on the epistemic virtues as virtues of our psychological character She has also written on contextualism in epistemology on social and group epistemology and on environmental ethics She is currently working on applications of virtue epistemology to particular real life situations including concerns with the politics of knowing and epistemic reparations Her work has been published in numerous edited volumes as well as in Episteme Philosophical Issues Acta Analytica History of Philosophy Quarterly Ethics and the Environment and Metaphilosophy

A Contemporary Marxist Critique of Neoliberal Capitalism Beyond Revolution and Neo Keynesianism

Published on 21 May 2024

by Yuan YuanCollege of Marxism Henan University of Technology Zhengzhou ChinaYuan Yuan has a Master s degree and works at the College of Marxism Henan University of Technology Zhengzhou China His research interests include Marxist Leninist philosophy scientific communism Neo Keynesianism dialectical and historical materialism

The Problem of Disinformation A Critical Approach

Published on 20 May 2024

by Tim HaywardSchool of Social and Political Science The University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Science Edinburgh UKTim Hayward is a social and political philosopher whose books include Ecological Thought An Introduction Polity 1995 Constitutional Environmental Rights OUP 2005 and Global Justice amp Finance OUP 2019 His current work examines the influence of strategic communications on political knowledge and the development of norms of international justice Publications in the field of applied epistemology include Three Duties of Epistemic Diligence Journal of Social Philosophy 2019 Conspiracy Theory The Case for Being Critically Receptive Journal of Social Philosophy 2022 The Applied Epistemology of Official Stories Social Epistemology 2023 He is Professor of Environmental Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh

Educators Subjectivities in Localising Global Citizenship Education A Chinese Case

Published on 13 May 2024

by Yi HongSchool of Education Soochow University Suzhou ChinaYi Hong received a Ph D from the University of Sydney and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Soochow University She researches citizenship education educational philosophy and curriculum studies

What about Whataboutism

Published on 13 May 2024

by Scott AikinJohn Caseya Philosophy Vanderbilt University Nashville TN USAb Philosophy Northeastern Illinois University Chicago IL USAScott Aikin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University He specializes in epistemology argumentation theory and ancient philosophy He is the author of Epistemology and the Regress Problem and Straw Man Arguments with John Casey John Casey is Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern Illinois University He specializes in medieval philosophy and argumentation theory He is the author with Scott Aikin of Straw Man Arguments Bloomsbury 2022

Mapping the Dynamics of the Vertical Farm A Biopolitical Epistemology of Valuation

Published on 13 May 2024

by Hayley BirssInstitute for the History amp Philosophy of Science amp Technology University of Toronto Toronto CanadaHayley Birss is beginning a doctoral program this fall They received a BASc from Quest University Canada and an MA from the University of Toronto s Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology IHPST Their work centres post colonial studies of venture capital climate change mitigation strategies and biopolitics More broadly they seek to understand technoscience s precarious relationship to the planet and its role in mitigating the climate crisis

The Pitfalls of Epistemic Autonomy without Intellectual Humility

Published on 9 May 2024

by James R BeebeDepartment of Philosophy University at Buffalo Buffalo NY USAJames R Beebe is Professor of Philosophy Director of the Experimental Epistemology Research Group and member of the Center for Cognitive Science at the University at Buffalo SUNY His primary research interests are in epistemology and experimental philosophy He has written about skepticism reliabilism a priori knowledge folk metaethics and intellectual virtue

Epistemic Class Injustice Class Composition and Industrial Action

Published on 7 May 2024

by Kenneth NovisPhilosophy University of Oxford Oxford UKKenneth Novis is a DPhil candidate in Philosophy at the University of Oxford St Hugh s College

Two Kinds of Vaccine Hesitancy

Published on 15 Apr 2024

by Joshua KelsallTom SorellPolitics and International Studies University of Warwick Coventry UKJoshua Kelsall is a post doctoral research fellow in the Political and International Studies Department of the University of Warwick and member of the Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group Most of his published research is in epistemology and moral philosophy with a particular focus on the philosophy of trust Before coming to Warwick he completed his thesis Trust Audit and Public Engagement at the University of St Andrews and the University of Stirling This project explored the relationship between audit and public trust in public institutions Since joining Warwick Josh has held multiple research projects as a post doctoral research fellow These include Moral Obligation and Epistemology The Case of Vaccine Hesitancy and GEMS Gaming Ecosystem as a Multi Layered Security Threat The former project explores moral and epistemological concerning vaccine hesitancy taking the recent COVID 19 pandemic as a case study Josh s contributions to the GEMS project include exploring research ethics questions pertaining to the use of AI systems to research and combat terrorism and radicalisation in online video gaming platforms Tom Sorell is Professor of Politics and Philosophy and Head of the Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group Warwick University Before coming to Warwick he was John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics in the Philosophy Dept at the University of Birmingham 2006 2012 and Professor of Philosophy at Essex University 1992 2006 where he was also co Director of the Human Rights Centre 2003 2005 He was Faculty Fellow in Ethics at Harvard in 1996 7 and Tang Chun I Visiting Professor in Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2013 He has published extensively in philosophy with more than 160 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters He is the author of eight monographs and editor or co editor of thirteen article collections He has been on the editorial board of British Journal of the History of Philosophy and the Journal of Applied Philosophy

The Philosophy of Epistemic Autonomy Introduction to Special Issue

Published on 4 Apr 2024

by Jonathan MathesonDepartment of Philosophy and Religious Studies University of North Florida Jacksonville FL USAJonathan Matheson is a professor of philosophy at the University of North Florida and the Director of the Florida Blue Center for Ethics His research interests are in epistemology focusing on issues related to disagreement and epistemic autonomy

The Epistemic Value of Democratic Meritocracy

Published on 4 Apr 2024

by Zhichao TongCenter for Chinese Public Administration Research Sun Yat Sen University Guangzhou ChinaZhichao Tong is an assistant professor at the School of Government of Sun Yat Sen University and a research fellow at the university s Center for Chinese Public Administration His research interests lie in democratic theory political epistemology comparative political theory and international political theory His work has appeared in the journal American Political Thought Philosophy and Social Criticism the European Journal of Political Theory Dao A Journal of Comparative Philosophy International Relations and the Journal of International Political Theory

Gatekeeping in Science Lessons from the Case of Psychology and Neuro Linguistic Programming

Published on 3 Apr 2024

by Katherine DormandyBruce Grimleya Department of Christian Philosophy University of Innsbruck Innsbruck Austriab Psychology Universidad Central de Nicaragua Managua NicaraguaKatherine Dormandy is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Innsbruck She has also held positions at the Humboldt University of Berlin the University of Leipzig the University of Saarbr cken and the Munich School of Philosophy and did her graduate work at Oxford University She is the University of Innsbruck s Ombudsperson for Good Scientific Practice in the Humanities and Law and heads the Innsbruck Center for Philosophy of Religion Her research interests include epistemology traditional formal and feminist moral psychology philosophy of science philosophy of psychology and philosophy of religion Bruce Grimley is a Chartered Psychologist in 2 divisions of the British Psychological Society He is independently employed Achieving Livest Ltd and currently evaluates post graduate work at UCN He regularly writes on the topic of NLP having authored 2 books and 9 chapters showing how NLP draws upon psychology His speciality as a psychologist of some 30 years in standing is one to one work whether coaching counselling or psychotherapy His PhD research asked the compelling question What is NLP with answers being published in the International Coaching Psychology Review

Epistemic Smothering is Not a Form of Epistemic Paternalism

Published on 1 Apr 2024

by Johannes StoffersFacolt di Filosofia Pontificia Universit Gregoriana Roma ItalyJohannes Stoffers SJ is Professor of Epistemology at the Faculty of Philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome Italy From 2016 to 2019 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Munich School of Philosophy He specializes in Philosophy of Religion Natural Theology and Epistemology He holds a Doctorate in Philosophy T bingen 2012 and received the University Habilitation for Philosophy Augsburg 2021 He is the author of a number of articles and monographs Die Befreiung vom B sen und der Aufstieg zum Absoluten Fichte Schelling und der Gedanke g ttlicher Gnade LIT 2011 Eine lebendige Einheit des Vielen Das Bem hen Fichtes und Schellings um die Lehre vom Absoluten Frommann Holzboog 2013 Gott und Welt ins Verh ltnis gesetzt Proze philosophischer Panentheismus und die Konzeptionen des Thomas von Aquin und des Nikolaus von Kues Aschendorff 2022 Istituzioni di Epistemologia Sociale Edizioni Studium 2023 Together with Georg Sans he edited Religionsphilosophie nach Fichte Das Absolute im Endlichen Metzler 2022

Epistemic Autonomy and the Shaping of Our Epistemic Lives

Published on 1 Apr 2024

by Jason KawallDepartment of Philosophy Environmental Studies Program Colgate University Hamilton NY USAJason Kawall is Carl Benton Straub 58 Endowed Chair in Culture and the Environment at Colgate University His research focuses on issues in ethics both normative and metaethics environmental ethics and epistemology with an emphasis on virtue based approaches to each

Better Not to Know On the Possibility of Culpable Knowledge

Published on 21 Mar 2024

by Jimmy Alfonso LiconSchool of Historical Philosophical and Religious Studies Arizona State University Tempe AZ USAJimmy Alfonso Licon Assistant Teaching Professor in the School of Historical Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University He works on ethical and epistemological issues involving reputations ignorance and signaling He teaches classes like bioethics theory of knowledge and philosophy of law

Populism and the New Radical Right A Necessary Distinction

Published on 13 Mar 2024

by Francesco Maria ScanniDepartment of Political Science University of Teramo Teramo ItalyFrancesco Maria Scanni is a research fellow at the Department of Political Science University of Teramo His main research interests deal with political parties digitalization populism and democracy He has published in various national and international journals including Administration amp Society Comparative European Politics Politikon and Theoria

How Can Constitutivism Account for the Persistence of Deep Disagreements

Published on 8 Mar 2024

by Enrico GalliInstitute of Philosophy Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Leuven BelgiumEnrico Galli is a graduate student at the KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy

Knowledge Production Digitalization and the Appropriation of Surplus Knowledge

Published on 8 Mar 2024

by Siyaves AzeriFaculty of Theater and Film Babes Bolyai University Cluj Napoca RomaniaSiyaves Azeri is an associate professor of philosophy at the Faculty of Theatre and Film Babes Bolyayi University in Cluj Napoca Romania Azeri is the primary investigator of the project Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis F104 15 11 2022 which is funded by the European Resilience Fund He is also the Co Editor in Chief of the journal Marxism amp Sciences and an associate of the Theses Twelve Mardin Value form Circle Azeri writes on a large gamut of subjects in different international journals and books His areas of interest include Marxian materialism the critique of epistemology the problem of consciousness philosophical psychology Kant s transcendentalism and Hume s empiricism

AI Testimony Conversational AIs and Our Anthropocentric Theory of Testimony

Published on 6 Mar 2024

by Ori Freimana Digital Society Lab McMaster University Hamilton Canadab Digital Policy Hub The Centre for International Governance Innovation Waterloo CanadaOri Freiman is a Post Doctoral Fellow at McMaster University s Digital Society Lab and The Centre for International Governance Innovation s Digital Policy Hub

Overcoming Eurocentrism Exploring Ethiopian Modernity Through Entangled Histories and Coloniality

Published on 8 Feb 2024

by Fasil MerawiDepartment of Philosophy Addis Ababa University Addis Ababa EthiopiaFasil Merawi received his BA MA and PhD degrees in Philosophy from Addis Ababa University His areas of interest include the metaphysics of temporality Ernst Bloch s utopia Habermasian critical social theory postcolonial theory Ethiopian philosophy and Ethiopian modernity Currently he is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Chairperson of the Department of Philosophy Addis Ababa University Ethiopia

Transcultural Identity of Twerking A Cultural Evolution Study of Women s Bodily Practices of the Slavic and East African Communities

Published on 23 Jan 2024

by Aleksandra ukaszewiczPriscilla GitongaKiryl Shylinhouskia Academy of Art in Szczecin Polish Society of Aesthetics Wo czkowo Polandb Department of Music and Dance Kenyatta University Nairobi Kenyac Independent ResearcherAleksandra ukaszewicz PhD in Philosophy on Epistemological Function of the Photographic Image at Warsaw University 2010 Habilitation in Humanities in the field of Culture and Religion Studies at the University of Lodz 2020 Specialist in philosophical aesthetics and theory of culture and art considering the posthumanist and transhumanist approach especially concerning art and personhood issues which is in aesthetic and ethical reflection on social perspective President of the Polish Society of Aesthetics The recipient of various prizes and grants these include a scholarship from the Ko ciuszko Foundation for research on art culture and aesthetics in the work of Joseph Margolis and a grant to support the preparation of her book project on the theory of cyborg persons explained in terms of the metaphysics of culture Are Cyborgs Persons An Account on Futurist Ethics Palgrave Macmillan 2021 The Main Coordinator of two international projects TICASS 2017 2021 and TPAAE 2020 2023 funded by the European Commission within the programme MSCA RISE Horizon 2020 dedicated to visual communication and visual literacy and art and art education in a transcultural perspective Coordinator on behalf of the Polish Society for Aesthetics in the research project CAPHE Communities and Artistic Participation in Hybrid Environments 2022 2026 Priscilla Gitonga Doctor of Philosophy Education at the Nelson Mandela University South Africa 2012 Master of Music in Musicology at the Nelson Mandela University 2009 and Bachelor of Education Arts at Kenyatta University Nairobi 2003 Areas of specialization include popular musicology adolescent identity studies and arts based qualitative research An established author of research articles in recognized journals Certified Director of a SACCO and a performing and recording artist based in Kenya Kiryl Shylinhouski Sociology at the Belarusian State University 1989 1994 Master of Art in Society and Politics the Central European University in Prague 1994 1995 OSI FCO Chevening Scholarship at St Antony s College in Oxford 1995 1996 Author of research articles related to folklore ethnography traditional physical practices of women and folk games of Belarusians bathhouse rituals and cure practices

Propositional Versus Encyclopedic Epistemology and Unintentional Plagiarism

Published on 10 Jan 2024

by Erhan im ekUniversity Library University of Duisburg Essen GermanyErhan im ek studied English European Studies and American Studies in Ankara Berlin Amherst and Heidelberg In 2017 he received his PhD in American literature from Heidelberg University Before he started working for the University of Duisburg Essen he taught academic writing at Bielefeld University for several years He is the author of Creating Realities Business as a Motif in American Fiction 1865 1929 His research interests include composition studies intercultural communication and academic integrity

Mechanistic Explanation Interdisciplinary Integration and Interpersonal Social Coordination

Published on 3 Jan 2024

by Matti SarkiaUniversity of Helsinki Helsinki FinlandMatti Sarkia is a post doctoral researcher at the TINT Centre for Philosophy of Social Science at the University of Helsinki He has been a visitor at the CUNY Graduate Centre UC Berkeley and the University of Munich

How Expertise is Enabled Why Epistemic Cycles Matter to us All

Published on 27 Dec 2023

by Stephen J CowleyUniversity of Southern Denmark Odense DenmarkStephen Cowley is Emeritus Professor of Organizational Cognition at the University of Southern Denmark His work offers an ecological view of distributed agency that uses radical embodied cognitive science to connect up human prosody mother infant interaction classroom activity workplace social organizing and centrally human languaging In the ecolinguistics of languaging he links theoretical biology with practice theory by placing human life cycles in historically evolving bioecologies He has authored over a hundred academic papers and edited co edited Distributed Language Cognition Beyond the Brain Biosemiotic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics and Organizational Cognition The Theory of Social Organizing

Scientism and the Problem of Self Referential Incoherence

Published on 21 Dec 2023

by Zolt n VecseyMTA SZTE DE Research Group for Theoretical Linguistics and Informatics Hungarian Academy of Sciences Szeged HungaryZolt n Vecsey is a research fellow at the MTA SZTE DE Research Group for Theoretical Linguistics and Informatics His research interests include the foundational questions of scientific realism the problems of nominal semantics and the theory of fictional discourse

Blackness the Body and Epistemological and Epistemic Traps A Phenomenological Analysis

Published on 14 Dec 2023

by Kuir GarangYouth Research and Evaluation Exchange YouthREX School of Social Work York University Toronto CanadaKuir Garang PhD is a South Sudanese Canadian researcher educator and writer He recently defended his doctoral dissertation Blackness and Its Ethical and Social Implications Discursive Impositions Colonial Entrapments and the Attendant Phenomenological Questions at the School of Social Work at York University Toronto His research interests are social justice issues including political social and epistemic exclusion and marginalization His current research focuses on the use of philosophy especially Husserl s transcendental phenomenology to address how African Canadian youth are marginalized in Canadian institutions His main interest in issues of marginality in Canada and in Africa is how subtle epistemic and epistemological biases go unnoticed within formal methodological standards He is currently working with Dr Uzo Anucha as a research associate on Anti Black racism within the youth sector in Ontario Canada He will start a postdoctoral fellowship with Youth Research and Evaluation Exchange YouthREX under Dr Anucha from January 2024

Testimonial Injustice from Countervailing Prejudices

Published on 14 Dec 2023

by Federico LuzziPhilosophy University of Aberdeen Aberdeen UKFederico Luzzi is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen His research interests include epistemology as well as feminist issues in philosophy of sport and ethics

The Contribution of Logic to Epistemic Injustice

Published on 14 Dec 2023

by Franci MangravitiInstitut f r Philosophie I Ruhr University Bochum Bochum GermanyFranci Mangraviti is currently a post doctoral researcher at the University of Padova They began their academic career in mathematics before turning to logic and finally to philosophy Their PhD dissertation was a philosophical study of so called inconsistent mathematics culminating in a reconceptualization of the field as a liberatory activity They now specialize in philosophy of logic and mathematics with a focus on alternatives and interactions with feminist philosophy and philosophy of gender

Friend or Foe Rethinking Epistemic Trespassing

Published on 13 Dec 2023

by Jelena Pavli i Jelena Dimitrijevi Aleksandra Vu kovi Strahinja or evi Adam Nedeljkovi eljko Te i a Institute for Philosophy Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade Belgrade Serbiab Department of Philosophy Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade Belgrade SerbiaJelena Pavli i works as Research Associate at the Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade She has received an MSc and Ph D in Epistemology from the University of Belgrade where she taught courses and seminars on General Methodology of Science Foundations of Philosophy and Methodology of Science and General Methodology Her research focuses on Epistemology ancient and modern Social Epistemology and Social Epistemology of Science Jelena Dimitrijevi holds a PhD in Philosophy She works as Research Associate at the Institute of Philosophy Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade Aleksandra Vu kovi is a Research Assistant at the Institute for Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade Her fields of interest include Epistemology Social Epistemology Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Language Strahinja or evi is a Research Associate at the Institute for Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade His fields of interest include Metaphysics Epistemology Social Ontology Social Epistemology and Philosophy of Time Adam Nedeljkovi works as a Research Associate at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy Department of Philosophy The main fields of interest are formal and social epistemology eljko Te i is a Ph D candidate at the Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade His fields of interest include History of Philosophy Epistemology Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Language

I ll Show You Differences Skills Creativity and Meaning

Published on 11 Dec 2023

by Johan SiebersPaul Cobleya Department of Law and Social Sciences Middlesex University London UKb Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries Middlesex University London UKJohan Siebers is Professor of Philosophy of Language and Communication at Middlesex University London He is founding editor of the Empedocles European Journal for Philosophy of Communication In 2022 he published Working with Time in Qualitative Research Case Studies Theory and Practice Routledge with Keri Facer and Bradon Smith Paul Cobley is Professor in Language and Media at Middlesex University He has been co editor of the journal Social Semiotics since 2004 In 2022 he published Bloomsbury Semiotics Volume 4 Semiotic Movements Bloomsbury with Jamin Pelkey and in 2023 he published Semiotics and Its Masters Volume 2 de Gruyter with Alin Olteanu

Universities as Anarchic Knowledge Institutions

Published on 6 Dec 2023

by S de HormioSamuli Reijulaa Practical Philosophy University of Helsinki Helsinki Finlandb Theoretical Philosophy University of Helsinki Helsinki FinlandS de Hormio is an Academy Research Fellow in Practical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki Her research focuses on collective responsibility and social epistemology She is interested in questions such as the impact of collective epistemic practices on individuals the role of scientific experts in democratic debates as well as issues around agnotology disinformation and group knowledge Samuli Reijula is an Academy Research Fellow and a University Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki His area of expertise is the philosophy of science with interests in cognitive science and science studies incl science of science His research interests include collective problem solving cognitive diversity science policy and foundations of evidence based policy

We Have No Satisfactory Social Epistemology of AI Based Science

Published on 1 Dec 2023

by Inkeri KoskinenPractical Philosophy University of Helsinki Helsinki FinlandInkeri Koskinen is a philosopher of science working as an Academy of Finland Research Fellow in Practical philosophy University of Helsinki She is a member of the Centre for Philosophy of Social Science TINT

Smart Environments

Published on 29 Nov 2023

by Shane RyanS Orestis PalermosMirko Farinaa Public and International Affairs City University of Hong Kong Hong Kongb Department of Philosophy University of Ioannina Ioannina Greecec Head of Human Machine Interaction Lab HMI Lab Institute for Digital Economy amp Artificial Systems IDEAS Xiamen University Xiamen People s Republic of Chinad Lomonosov Moscow State University Moscow Russian Federatione University of Religions and Denominations Qom IranShane Ryan received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh and is currently Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong His research engages with a variety of topics in epistemology ethics and social philosophy including epistemic environmentalism wisdom and paternalism Orestis Palermos is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ioannina Greece His research which is at the intersection of philosophy of mind and cognitive science epistemology philosophy of technology and philosophy of science focuses on the epistemological and lately also ethical ramifications of emerging technologies Mirko Farina is a Professor Senior Researcher and Head of the Human Machine Interaction Lab at the Institute for Digital Economy and Artificial Systems IDEAS established in Xiamen People s Republic of China by Xiamen University XMU Lomonosov Moscow State University MSU and Xiamen Municipal People s Government

How Do Philosophical Positions Influence the Social Science Research Process A Classification and Metaphor Analysis of Researchers Descriptions

Published on 28 Nov 2023

by Adam CoatesCEEC Hanyang University Seoul South KoreaAdam Coates is assistant professor in the CEEC at Hanyang University His research focuses on research processes in social science and how these are represented in journal articles His recent publications include an investigation of the role of research philosophy in mixed methods research and a study of basic details in social science research writing

Expertise in Non Well Defined Task Domains The Case of Reading

Published on 15 Nov 2023

by Sarah Bro TrasmundiEdward BaggsJuan ToroSune Vork Steffensena Department of Literature Area Studies and European Languages Literature Cognition and Emotion Group University of Oslo Oslo Norwayb Centre for Human Interactivity Department of Culture and Language University of Southern Denmark Odense Denmarkc Danish Institute for Advanced Study Odense Denmarkd College of International Studies Southwest University Chongqing Chinae Center for Ecolinguistics South China Agricultural University Guangzhou ChinaSarah Bro Trasmundi is Associate Professor of Cognitive Ethnography at the University of Southern Denmark and Researcher at Oslo University in the research group Literature Cognition and Emotions She focuses on the intersection between cognition imagination and language in domains such as literature interaction reading and education Edward Baggs is Assistant Professor at the Department of Culture and Language at the University of Southern Denmark and a Fellow at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study His work focuses on the ecology of perception and on processes of human enculturation With Guilherme Sanches de Oliveira he is the author of the book Psychology s WEIRD Problems Cambridge University Press 2023 Juan Toro is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Humanities University of Southern Denmark His research combines phenomenology 4E cognition and mixed methods He has done research on reading processes in relation to attention mind wandering habits and aesthetic experiences and has also focused on the social and embodied aspects of physical disabilities Sune Vork Steffensen is Professor of Language Interaction and Cognition at the University of Southern Denmark and Senior Fellow at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study Focusing on how language and cognition intersect in complex social and dialogical systems his research draws on ecological dialogical and distributed approaches to language interaction and cognition

Becoming a Knower Fabricating Knowing Through Coaction

Published on 10 Nov 2023

by Marie Theres Fester SeegerFaculty of Social and Cultural Sciences European University Viadrina Frankfurt Oder GermanyMarie Theres Fester Seeger is a postdoctoral fellow at the European University of Viadrina Frankfurt Oder Germany She received her PhD at the Department of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark in 2021 Her research interests include distributed language languaging multiscalar temporal cognition systemic views on cognition and dialogical approaches to language She is particularly interested in how human engagement with a direct Other determines human perception action and thinking Interested in human lived experience and temporality she investigates how people are able to perceive and act upon what is not directly present and how this contributes to human becoming On the grounds of that she developed the idea of human presencing in her PhD She received an individual grant from the Postdoc Network Brandenburg and currently investigates human engagement with digital voice assistants in their home environments

Designing an Expert Setting for Interdisciplinary Dialogue Literary Texts as Boundary Objects

Published on 8 Nov 2023

by Karin KukkonenILOS Department of Literature European Languages and Area Studies University of Oslo Oslo NorwayKarin Kukkonen is Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo She is an expert in cognitive approaches to literature and the history of the novel the author of Probability Designs Literature and Predictive Processing OUP 2020 and currently finishing a monograph on creativity in literary writing At the University of Oslo she leads the interdisciplinary initiative Literature Cognition and Emotions LCE She is a member of the Academy of Europe and was recently awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant 2022 to study literary games

Censorship Bubbles Vs Hate Bubbles

Published on 6 Nov 2023

by Wendy XinDiscipline of Philosophy University of Sydney Sydney NSW AustraliaWendy Xin is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Sydney Her research interests include environmental ethics emotions feminist philosophy and social epistemology

Cringe

Published on 31 Oct 2023

by Thomas J SpiegelDepartment of Philosophy University of Potsdam Potsdam GermanyThomas J Spiegel is Humboldt amp JSPS postdoctoral fellow at Waseda University Prior to that he was wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the University of Potsdam He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Leipzig in 2017

The Wrong of Bullshit

Published on 27 Oct 2023

by Thorian R HarrisDepartment of Philosophy University of California Davis CA USAThorian R Harris is a Continuing Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California Davis His research focuses primarily on the application of early Chinese philosophy to contemporary ethical issues

Introduction to the Special Issue Expertise Semiotics and Interactivity

Published on 13 Oct 2023

by Charles LassiterSarah Bro Trasmundia Department of Philosophy Gonzaga University Spokane WA USAb Department of Language and Culture University of Southern Denmark Odense Denmarkc Centre for Human Interactivity Department of Language Culture History and Communication University of Southern Denmark Odense Denmarkd Advanced Cognitive Ethnography Lab Department of Language Culture History and Communication University of Southern Denmark Odense Denmarke Department of Literature Areas Studies and European Languages Oslo University Oslo NorwayCharles Lassiter is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Gonzaga University His research focuses on the epistemology and metaphysics of mind of encultured cognition Sarah Bro Trasmundi is Associate Professor of Cognitive Ethnography at the University of Southern Denmark and Researcher at Oslo University in the research group Literature Cognition and Emotions She focuses on the intersection between cognition imagination and language in domains such as literature interaction reading and education

Reading the Signs From Dyadic to Triadic Views for Identifying Experts

Published on 9 Oct 2023

by Charles LassiterDepartment of Philosophy Gonzaga University Spokane WA USACharles Lassiter is associate professor of philosophy at Gonzaga University His research focuses on issues in metaphysics and epistemology at the intersection of mind and culture

Apology for an Average Believer Wagered Belief and Information Environments

Published on 9 Oct 2023

by Richard Kenneth AtkinsPhilosophy Department Boston College Chestnut Hill MA USARichard Kenneth Atkins is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College He is author of Peirce on Inference Oxford 2023 Charles S Peirce s Phenomenology Oxford 2018 Peirce and the Conduct of Life Cambridge 2016 and Puzzled Hackett 2015 His articles have appeared in Synthese Journal of the American Philosophical Association European Journal of Philosophy and British Journal for the History of Philosophy among other venues

Enacting Practices Perception Expertise and Enlanguaged Affordances

Published on 27 Sep 2023

by Rasmus Gahrn AndersenDepartment of Culture and Language University of Southern Denmark Slagelse DenmarkRasmus Gahrn Andersen is Associate Professor at the Department of Culture and Language University of Southern Denmark He is currently researching human socio practical activity from an interdisciplinary perspective More specifically he explores phenomena such as concept and non concept involving perception basic and distributed cognition social organizing human technology entanglements and how linguistic competencies and skills enable human practical behavior

Epistemic Inclusion as the Key to Benefiting from Cognitive Diversity in Science

Published on 26 Sep 2023

by Vlasta Sikimi Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences Eindhoven University of Technology Eindhoven The NetherlandsVlasta Sikimi is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Eindhoven University of Technology In her research Dr Sikimi promotes the ideal of inclusive science She lectures on topics such as Philosophy and Epistemology of Science Social Epistemology and Information Dynamics in Groups Dr Sikimi also actively takes part in philosophical organizations of international importance For example she is the Chair of the Organizing Committee of the European Philosophy of Science Conference that will be held in 2023 and a member of the East European Network for Philosophy of Science Steering Committee

Epistemic Autonomy and Intellectual Humility Mutually Supporting Virtues

Published on 26 Sep 2023

by Jonathan MathesonDepartment of Philosophy and Religious Studies University of North Florida Jacksonville FL USAJonathan Matheson is a professor of philosophy at the University of North Florida His research interests are primarily in epistemology focusing on issues related to disagreement and epistemic autonomy He is the author of The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement Palgrave and Why It s OK Not to Think for Yourself Routledge

No Regret Learning Supports Voters Competence

Published on 12 Sep 2023

by Petr Spelda

Other Oriented Hermeneutical Injustice Affected Ignorance or Human Ignorance

Published on 11 Sep 2023

by J M Dieterle

Intra Group Epistemic Injustice Jewish Identity Whiteness and Zionism

Published on 11 Sep 2023

by Dana Grabelsky

Reflexive Research Practice in Women’s Prison Research in Uganda

Published on 2 Aug 2023

by Milliam Kiconco Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Population Studies, Kyambogo University, Kampala, UgandaMilliam Kiconco is a lecturer at Kyambogo University, in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Population Studies, Kampala, Uganda. She holds a PhD in Applied Social Sciences from the City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include gender and crime, violence against women, women in the criminal justice system and homicide studies.

What Would It be Like to be Bohmians? Experiencing a Gestalt Switch in Physics as an Effect of Path Dependence

Published on 12 Jul 2023

by Léna Soler Archives Henri-Poincaré - Philosophie et Recherches sur les Sciences et les Technologies (PREST), Université de Lorraine, Nancy, FranceLéna Soler is associate professor at the Université de Lorraine and member of the Archives Henri-Poincaré – Philosophie et Recherches sur les Sciences et les Technologies (Nancy, France). Her area of specialization is philosophy of science (especially of quantum mechanics). Among her main research topics are the following issues: the contingency versus inevitability of scientific achievements; scientific pluralism; the ‘practice turn’ in science studies; the robustness of scientific results; tacit aspects of scientific practice; theory choice; and the incommensurability problem. She wrote an Introduction à l’épistémologie (3rd ed., Ellipses, 2018), and has been the main editor of several collective books, among which are Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison: Stabilities, Ruptures, Incommensurabilities? (Springer, 2008, with Howard Sankey and Paul Hoyningen), Characterizing the Robustness of Science (Springer, 2012, with William C. Wimsatt, Thomas Nickles and Emiliano Trizio), Science after the Practice Turn in the Philosophy, History, and Social Studies of Science (Routledge, 2014, with Michael Lynch, Sjoerd Zwart, and Vincent Israël-Jost), and Science as it Could Have Been: Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem (Pittsburgh, 2015, with Andrew Pickering and Emiliano Trizio). On contingency in science, she also published a special issue with Howard Sankey (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 2008).

Do Political Convictions Infect Every Fibre of Our Being?

Published on 29 Mar 2023

by Joseph Ulatowski David Lumsden Philosophy, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New ZealandJoseph Ulatowski is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Waikato. His areas of specialty include the philosophy of action and philosophy of language. Joseph is author of Commonsense Pluralism about Truth: An Empirical Defence (2017) and several articles and book chapters in action theory and the nature of truth.David Lumsden is Research Associate in Philosophy at the University of Waikato. His publications include articles in the philosophy of language focusing on pragmatics, especially the pragmatics of reference, and in the philosophy of mind including mental symbols, the intentional stance, and, more recently, narrative theories of the self.

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Taming Human Subjects: Researchers’ Strategies for Coping with Vagaries in Social Science Experiments

Published on 28 Feb 2023

by Carol Ting Martin Montgomery a Department of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau, Macao, Chinab School of Humanities, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UKc Department of English, University of Macau, Macao, ChinaCarol Ting is Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication, University of Macau. Her area of research focuses on social science experiments and she has recently published work in the Social Science Journal and the International Journal of Social Research Methodology.Martin Montgomery is Visiting Professor in the School of Humanities, University of Strathclyde (and Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Macau where he served as Dean). He has published widely on language and media.

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Regulating Social Media as a Public Good: Limiting Epistemic Segregation

Published on 3 Feb 2023

by Toby Handfield SOPHIS, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria

Online Illusions of Understanding

Published on 28 Dec 2022

by Jeroen de Ridder Faculty of Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsJeroen de Ridder is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Professor by special appointment of Christian Philosophy at the University of Groningen. His research is focused on social and political epistemology.

On the Uses and Abuses of Celebrity Epistemic Power

Published on 22 Dec 2022

by Alfred Archer Mark Alfano Matthew Dennis a Tilburg Universityb Macquarie Universityc Eindhoven University of Technology

Virtue Signalling to Signal Trustworthiness, Avoid Distrust, and Scaffold Self-Trust

Published on 22 Dec 2022

by William Tuckwell Department of Philosophy, School of Social Work and Arts, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, AustraliaWilliam Tuckwell is a postdoctoral research fellow at Charles Sturt University in Australia. He recently completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne. He works in epistemology and social and political philosophy. His work has been published in Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, The Oxford Handbook of Consequentialism, and the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective.

Self-Trust and Critical Thinking Online: A Relational Account

Published on 16 Dec 2022

by Lavinia Marin Samantha Marie Copeland Ethics and Philosophy of Technology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands

Costly Displays in a Digital World: Signalling Trustworthiness on Social Media

Published on 13 Dec 2022

by Ritsaart Willem Peter Reimann Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Macquarie Park, NSW, Australia

Correction

Published on 7 Feb 2022

Conceptualizing Scientific Progress Needs a New Humanism

Published on 3 Jan 2022

by Ilya Т. Kasavin Department for Social Epistemology, RAS Institute of Philosophy, Moscow, Russian FederationIlya Т. Kasavin graduated from the Mendeleev Moscow State University in 1980 with MA cum laude in philosophy and in 1983 with PhD in the history of philosophy. He received his Dr. Sci. (Philos.) degree from the RAS Institute of Philosophy, Moscow (1990). He works mainly on topics in epistemology and philosophy of science and STS. He was elected to Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences (2003). He is also full professor (2009), research director and principal investigator, head of the department for social epistemology, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2005); philosophy chair, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod (since 2017); editor in chief of Epistemology & Philosophy of Science and The Digital Scholar: The Philosopher’s Lab. He authored 13 books, co-authored 57 books and over 150 journal articles. He is currently the President-Elect of the Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science.

History of Human Science Laboratories

Published on 27 Dec 2021

by Alexandra A. Argamakova RAS Institute of Philosophy, Moscow, Russian FederationDr. Alexandra A. Argamakova is a research fellow at the Department of Social Epistemology, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences. Her research interests are connected with epistemology, history and philosophy of sciences, and history of modern Western philosophy (Pragmatism, Positivism, Analytic Philosophy).

Hijacking the Postmodern Project: Post-Truth and the Need to De-politicize Epistemological Dispute

Published on 7 Dec 2021

by Alexander Ruser Department of Sociology & Social Work, University of Agder, Kristiansand, NorwayAlexander Ruser is Professor of Sociology at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway. His research focuses on the role of knowledge and expertise in modern societies. He has published on climate change policies, knowledge and climate denial, economic policies and the social role of science.

The Charisma of Reason during the Re-enchantment of the World

Published on 3 Dec 2021

by Olga E. Stoliarova RAS Institute of Philosophy, RAS, Moscow, Russian FederationOlga E. Stoliarova is a Senior Researcher at the RAS Institute of Philosophy (Moscow). She received her Cand. Sci. (Philos.) degree from the RAS Institute of Philosophy (Moscow). She works mainly on topics in Historical Epistemology, Social Epistemology, Science and Technology Studies. Her most recent book is The Return of Metaphysics as a Fact (Moscow: Publishing House ‘Russian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science’, 2019).

The Evolutionary Dimension of Scientific Progress

Published on 29 Nov 2021

by Alexander Yu Antonovskiy Raisa Ed Barash a RAS Institute of Philosophy, Moscow, Russian Federationb Institute of Sociology of Fctas RAS, Moscow, Russian FederationAlexander Yu Antonovskiy, Leading researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of the Faculty of Philosophy at Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Department of Social Philosophy and Philosophy of History. Graduated from Moscow State University in Philosophy. Received PhD (Doctor in Philosophy) from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2016. Implemented several international research projects on the sociology of knowledge and science as a visiting researcher of leading universities: Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Germany), University of Giessen (Germany), University of Karlsruhe (Germany), University of Bielefeld (Germany), University of Albert Ludwig (Germany), Columbia University, Department of Sociology (USA), University of Eberhard-Karl (Germany). As a Professor of Moscow State University, leads the implementation of scientific projects of the Department of Social Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Moscow State University. Translated into Russian, and adapted classical texts on the sociology of knowledge by F.D.E. Schleiermacher, M. Weber, K. Hübner, N. Elias, N. Luhmann. Author of several books on social philosophy of science: ‘Niklas Luhmann: Epistemological Introduction to Theory of Social Systems’ (2007, in Russian), ‘Socioepistemology’ (2011, in Russian), ‘Communicative Philosophy of Knowledge’ (2015, in Russian), ‘Systemically-Communicative Theory: Science and Protest’ (2019, in Russian).https://eng.iphras.ru/antonovskiy.htmhttps://philos.msu.ru/node/219Raisa Ed Barash, Graduated from Moscow State University in Political Science. She received her PhD (Candidate in Political Science) from Moscow State University in 2010. She is currently a Senior Researcher in the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Participated in several research projects of the Russian Academy of Sciences, devoted to features of mass public attitudes and perceptions in modern society. Interested in the sociology of identity, knowledge and science.

Post-Science in a Post-Modern World

Published on 17 Nov 2021

by Evgeny V. Maslanov Department of Social Epistemology, RAS Institute of Philosophy, Moscow, Russian FederationEvgeny V. Maslanov is a Researcher at the RAS Institute of Philosophy.

The Dialectic of Progress and the Cultivation of Resistance in Critical Social Theory

Published on 16 Nov 2021

by Iaan Reynolds Department of Philosophy, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, United StatesIaan Reynolds teaches philosophy at Villanova University, where he received his Ph.D. in 2021. His dissertation treated the relationship between critical theory and the development of critics through a discussion of Karl Popper, Theodor W. Adorno, and Karl Mannheim. His current work continues this line of investigation through research into the sociology of knowledge, phenomenology, and the philosophies of revolutionary political movements.