Collective Knowledge and Epistemic Trust
Here is a conference that promises to be one of the highlights of the social epistemology calender this year. Of course, don’t forget EPISTEME ’10 nor indeed the special issue on trust and testimony.
Category Archive Browsing Category: social epistemology
Browse by:
Hayek: cognitive scientist avant la lettre
Here is the uncorrected proof of my essay – do not cite.
Habermas and the Internet
Here’s an interesting article entitled “Does Habermas Understand the Internet? The Algorithmic Construction of the Blogo/Public Sphere“
The Social Epistemology of Experimental Economics
A new book by Ana Cordeiro dos Santos has come to my attention. Aside from the title which caught my eye – The Social Epistemology of Experimental Economics – what recommends checking the book out is that Ana’s pedigree is notable – her PhD was supervised by Uskali Mäki and Jack Vromen, both top-draw minds…
Alvin Goldman Symposium
Look out for what might be best considered the results from a symposium on Alvin Goldman in his distinctive guise as epistemologist – distinctive in the sense that he’s been at the heart of “analytical” epistemology for the past 40+ years and has recently lead the charge to make social epistemology acceptable to analytical epistemologists.…
Momento’s Revenge
I’ve read just about everything by Andy Clark – as I’ve said several times before he is a superb stylist and is philosophy at its most lively. Some years back I read his paper Memento’s Revenge: Objections and Replies to the Extended Mind. I don’t recall having seen the film that Andy references in his paper;…
The Epistemology of Disagreement
The latest issue of EPISTEME is now available.
Cognitive Ecology
The program for EPISTEME 2010 is firming up nicely. It’s great to see Martin Kusch finally involved with EPISTEME. Discussants at large include David Bloor – how ecumenical is that? In many ways social epistemology comes home – Edinburgh historically being a hotbed of the Strong Programme – and EPISTEME being published by Edinburgh University…
Alan Sokal Interview
Here’s a TPM interview with Alan Sokal. As Sokal says, perhaps it is inevitable that whatever his technical achievements are, he will be remembered for the so-called “Sokal hoax.” The vitriol that this debate generated I think did philosophy a service to a degree – “Continental” and analytical philosophy – but the slanging match did…
The epistemology of legal evidence
A reminder that the bumper issue of EPISTEME is available for free download. See the first paragraph below which discusses the lacuna this issue fills. WALTER SINNOTT-ARMSTRONG AND FREDERICK SCHAUER INTRODUCTION Epistemology and the philosophy of law are both thriving, but it is unfortunate that there is so little interaction between the two. Few books…
manwithoutqualities 