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Dive into the Book Review section and read single-authored or multiple-authored reviews of recent books in the area of social epistemology. Launched in November 2011, the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (SERRC) provides an open-access forum for intellectual inquiry and dialogue concerning issues of knowledge, society, science, technology, politics, economics, and ecology.
Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective » Book Reviews
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Whether we like it or not, we live in interesting times for democracy. We aspire to rule by the people but for the people to rule they need to have knowledge both of political institutions and practices and of the... Read More ›
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Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective » Book Reviews
2M ago
Eric Steinhart has kindly responded (2024) to my review (2023) of Believing in Dawkins and has responded to a number of criticisms I have made. For this I would like to thank him. I cannot address every point he raises... Read More ›
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2M ago
In 1959, the British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow held his famous Rede lecture on “The Two Cultures” (Snow 1961[1959]), juxtaposing the intellectual cultures of science on the one hand and of the humanities and arts (or, more precisely,... Read More ›
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2M ago
The Science-Music Borderlands, edited by Elizabeth H. Margulis, Psyche Loui and Deirdre Loughridge, offers a fresh perspective and broadened sense of music studies. The book splits into four parts, each with several chapters, which tackle significant myths in music science.... Read More ›
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Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective » Book Reviews
3M ago
The introduction to the research collection Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons ends with a striking imperative. For the book to succeed fully in its purpose, its readers will have to organize the knowledge commons institutions that they describe. We... Read More ›
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Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective » Book Reviews
3M ago
I wish to thank Bernard Wills (2023) for an insightful review of my book Believing in Dawkins: The New Spiritual Atheism (Steinhart, 2020). I am especially grateful that Wills has the clarity of mind to look deep into the theological... Read More ›
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Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective » Book Reviews
4M ago
We, as epistemic agents, spend a great deal of time making necessary assessments of the credibility of various speech actors who come within our awareness. As citizens of the polis, bearing goodwill to the other citizens, we seek to ensure... Read More ›
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Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective » Book Reviews
5M ago
Believing in Dawkins (2020) by Eric Steinhart is a book that answers a question I would not myself have asked. This makes it both intriguing and frustrating. Steinhart wants to build a ‘new spiritual atheism’ based on two elements which,... Read More ›
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Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective » Book Reviews
6M ago
I always seem to be reviewing books for the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective while on holiday. My last review was written while on the beaches of South Goa, India. That book was by Michael Gibson and was about... Read More ›
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Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective » Book Reviews
6M ago
As the pithy title of this book suggests, it was written by someone with a mission. Susan Neiman’s central aim is to challenge the kind of back-of-the-envelope relativism that she argues is a consequence of too much high theory and... Read More ›
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