Social Epistemology

• 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.
• Two Kinds of Vaccine Hesitancy
  Social Epistemology15 April 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology04 April 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology04 April 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology03 April 2024By 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 Saarbrücken 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
  Social Epistemology01 April 2024By Johannes StoffersFacoltà di Filosofia, Pontificia Università 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 (Tübingen 2012) and received the University Habilitation for Philosophy (Augsburg 2021). He is the author of a number of articles and monographs: Die Befreiung vom Bösen und der Aufstieg zum Absoluten: Fichte, Schelling und der Gedanke göttlicher Gnade (LIT, 2011), Eine lebendige Einheit des Vielen: Das Bemühen Fichtes und Schellings um die Lehre vom Absoluten (Frommann-Holzboog, 2013), Gott und Welt ins Verhältnis gesetzt: Prozeßphilosophischer 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
  Social Epistemology01 April 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology21 March 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology13 March 2024By 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 & Society, Comparative European Politics Politikon and Theoria.
• How Can Constitutivism Account for the Persistence of Deep Disagreements?
  Social Epistemology08 March 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology08 March 2024By 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 & 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
  Social Epistemology06 March 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology08 February 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology23 January 2024By Aleksandra ŁukaszewiczPriscilla GitongaKiryl Shylinhouskia Academy of Art in Szczecin, Polish Society of Aesthetics, Wołczkowo, Polandb Department of Music and Dance, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenyac Independent ResearcherAleksandra Łukaszewicz 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 Kościuszko 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
  Social Epistemology10 January 2024By Erhan ŞimşekUniversity Library, University of Duisburg-Essen, GermanyErhan Şimşek 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
  Social Epistemology03 January 2024By 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
  Social Epistemology27 December 2023By 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
  Social Epistemology21 December 2023By Zoltán VecseyMTA-SZTE-DE Research Group for Theoretical Linguistics and Informatics (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Szeged, HungaryZoltán 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
  Social Epistemology14 December 2023By Kuir ë GarangYouth Research and Evaluation Exchange (YouthREX), School of Social Work, York University, Toronto, CanadaKuir ë 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
  Social Epistemology14 December 2023By 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
  Social Epistemology14 December 2023By Franci MangravitiInstitut für 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
  Social Epistemology13 December 2023By Jelena PavličićJelena DimitrijevićAleksandra VučkovićStrahinja ĐorđevićAdam NedeljkovićŽeljko Tešića Institute for Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbiab Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, SerbiaJelena Pavličić 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 Dimitrijević holds a PhD in Philosophy. She works as Research Associate at the Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade.Aleksandra Vučković 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 Đorđević 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 Nedeljković 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.Željko Tešić 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
  Social Epistemology11 December 2023By 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
  Social Epistemology06 December 2023By Säde HormioSamuli Reijulaa Practical Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finlandb Theoretical Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FinlandSäde 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
  Social Epistemology01 December 2023By 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
  Social Epistemology29 November 2023By 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 & 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
  Social Epistemology28 November 2023By 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
  Social Epistemology15 November 2023By 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
  Social Epistemology10 November 2023By 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
  Social Epistemology08 November 2023By 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
  Social Epistemology06 November 2023By 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
  Social Epistemology31 October 2023By Thomas J. SpiegelDepartment of Philosophy, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, GermanyThomas J. Spiegel is Humboldt & 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
  Social Epistemology27 October 2023By 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”
  Social Epistemology13 October 2023By 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
  Social Epistemology09 October 2023By 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
  Social Epistemology09 October 2023By 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
  Social Epistemology27 September 2023By 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
  Social Epistemology26 September 2023By Vlasta SikimićIndustrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The NetherlandsVlasta Sikimić is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Eindhoven University of Technology. In her research, Dr. Sikimić 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. Sikimić 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
  Social Epistemology26 September 2023By 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).

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