Social Epistemology

• 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.
• 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.

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