Social Epistemology

• AI-Extended Moral Agency?
  Social Epistemology16 April 2025By 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’
  Social Epistemology15 April 2025By 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
  Social Epistemology11 April 2025By 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
  Social Epistemology03 April 2025By 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
  Social Epistemology03 April 2025By 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?
  Social Epistemology31 March 2025By 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
  Social Epistemology27 March 2025By 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
  Social Epistemology27 March 2025By 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
  Social Epistemology27 March 2025By 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
  Social Epistemology27 March 2025By 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
  Social Epistemology25 March 2025By 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
  Social Epistemology18 March 2025By 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
  Social Epistemology14 March 2025By 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
  Social Epistemology11 March 2025By 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
  Social Epistemology10 March 2025By 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
  Social Epistemology10 March 2025By 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
  Social Epistemology25 February 2025By 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?
  Social Epistemology18 February 2025By 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
  Social Epistemology14 February 2025By 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
  Social Epistemology12 February 2025By 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
  Social Epistemology07 February 2025By 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
  Social Epistemology03 February 2025By 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
  Social Epistemology30 January 2025By 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
  Social Epistemology22 January 2025By 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
  Social Epistemology21 January 2025By 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
  Social Epistemology14 January 2025By 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
  Social Epistemology14 January 2025By 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
  Social Epistemology26 December 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology16 December 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology12 December 2024By 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.
• Vices of Distrust
  Social Epistemology18 November 2024By 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.
• Trust in a Social and Digital World
  Social Epistemology18 November 2024By 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.
• Critical Social Epistemology of Social Media and Epistemic Virtues
  Social Epistemology28 October 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology21 October 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology15 October 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology14 October 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology14 October 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology09 October 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology04 October 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology04 October 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology04 October 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology02 October 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology02 October 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology02 October 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology01 October 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology01 October 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology01 October 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology30 September 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology30 September 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology30 September 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology25 September 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology25 September 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology25 September 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology25 September 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology24 September 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology24 September 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology18 September 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology18 September 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology18 September 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology16 September 2024By 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?
  Social Epistemology13 September 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology11 September 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology03 September 2024By Sasha Mudd Hernán Bobadilla a Instituto de Filosofía, Pontificia Universidad Católica 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 Católica 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.Hernán 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
  Social Epistemology19 August 2024By Petr Špecián 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 Špecián 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 Špecián leads a research group studying AI-induced institutional transformations (www.institutional-transformation.ai).
• Conspiracy Theorists’ World and Genealogy
  Social Epistemology09 July 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology02 July 2024By Maarten van Doorn Taal & 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
  Social Epistemology20 June 2024By Resa-Philip Lunau Gender Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, GermanyResa-Philip Lunau (he/him) is a lecturer at the University of Göttingen. 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
  Social Epistemology20 June 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology18 June 2024By Işık Sarıhan Independent Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy, Budapest, HungaryIşık Sarıhan 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
  Social Epistemology10 June 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology04 June 2024By Marko-Luka Zubčić 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 Zubčić 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.
• On the Intellectual Vice of Epistemic Apathy
  Social Epistemology30 May 2024By Lukas Schwengerer Alkis Kotsonis a Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften, Institut für 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
  Social Epistemology29 May 2024By Nicolas Zehner Francisco Durán 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 Durán 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
  Social Epistemology23 May 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology21 May 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology20 May 2024By 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 & 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
  Social Epistemology13 May 2024By 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?
  Social Epistemology13 May 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology13 May 2024By Hayley BirssInstitute for the History & Philosophy of Science & 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
  Social Epistemology09 May 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology07 May 2024By Kenneth NovisPhilosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKKenneth Novis is a DPhil candidate in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, St. Hugh’s College.

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