Gnostic Populism or What I Learned on X, Bernard N. Wills One of the most striking things about our contemporary culture (and its assumed ‘secularity) is the degree to which it recapitulates mythic and theological patterns long assumed lost and superseded.  This is especially true in the political…

A “Parasitology” of Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Theorizing the Add-on Role of Social Sciences and Humanities, Judith Igelsböck Abstract Anita Välikangas’s analysis of a broad selection of interdisciplinary funding programs shows that the Social Sciences and Humanities’ (SSH) relegation to…

Understanding, Teaching, and Phenomenology in the Age of LLMs: Critical Reply to Malfatti’s “ChatGPT, Education, and Understanding”, Jacob Rump In “ChatGPT, Education, and Understanding” (2025), Federica Isabella Malfatti provides a thought-provoking account of what it would take for an Large…

What Are We to Do About Vicious Distrusters? A Reply to Carter and Meehan, Johnny Brennan The pursuit of knowledge can go wrong in many ways. It can go wrong when trying to gain knowledge through reasoning. We jump to conclusions, ignore disconfirming evidence, improperly interpret evidence,…

Interstitial Justice and Erasure: A Response to Richardson, Ásta A lot of philosophical work in the last two decades has been at the intersection of theoretical and practical philosophy, especially concerning social aspects of epistemic, linguistic, or ontological phenomena. Although the…

Restricting AI to Its Proper Sphere: A Response to Blok, Jonas Hallström In his fine and philosophically well-argued article “Economics and Politics in the Age of AI” (2025), Vincent Blok asserts that the “technological advancements in digital technologies like AI raise societal concerns about the…

Thinking Dwelling with Heidegger and Asad: Existence, Authority, and the Problem of Home, Muhammed Shah Shajahan Muhammed Nishad’s reflections on Martin Heidegger’s notion of dwelling (wohnen) to interpret the social and political significance of Mosques in the South Indian region of Malabar open…

A Response to Caracciolo’s Reply to “Designing an Expert Setting for Interdisciplinary Dialogue”, Karin Kukkonen, My proposal in the initial article (2024) was that literary texts and the expertise of literary scholars have an important role to play in developing new means for exchange and…

SERRC: Of Note, 2025 My sincerest thanks to the SERRC’s contributors in 2025. Your work cultivated the reception of select articles published in Social Epistemology and Techné and produced insights about ongoing dialogues and projects. I am particularly grateful for the continuing engagement of…

SERRC: Volume 14, Issue 12, 1–71, December 2025 Volume 14, Issue 12, 1–71, December 2025 ❧ Basham, Lee. 2025. “Response to Napolitano and Harris on Epistemic Authority.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 14 (12): 1–10. ❧ Tuckwell, William. 2025. “A Comment on Anderson’s ‘Virtuous…

Epistemic Agency Is Enhancing Your Power to Know: A Reply to Coeckelbergh, Gärtner, Steup and Xu, Adam Riggio A massively important concern for our time, at the moment, is the question of epistemic agency, how we can develop it, and how we can protect it from pernicious forces and influences that…

Twenty Years After Kitzmiller: Towards a Different Science-Religion Relationship, Steve Fuller On 20 December 2005, Judge John Jones decided in favour of the plaintiffs in Kitzmiller et al v Dover Area School District at the Mid-Pennsylvania US District Court in Harrisburg. I testified as an…

Why Should We Read Old Books in the Time of LLMs? (And, No, Not Because Using LLMs is Cheating), Ljiljana Radenovic Recently on X (formerly Twitter), an account that promotes various uses of LLMs (Large Language Models) to their academic followers posted a thread on how to write 4,000 words of…

“Hope Does Not Put Us to Shame”: A Final Anti-Skeptical Reply to Tőzsér, Bálint Békefi In my review (2024) of János Tőzsér’s monograph The Failure of Philosophical Knowledge (2023), I developed three main lines of criticism, which I then defended (2025) against his response (2025a). In his latest…

Four Questions about Expertise and Epistemic Authority, Jonghyeon Kim and Nathan Ballantyne Intuitively, it is rational for laypeople to defer to experts’ testimony, even when the laypeople’s prior beliefs are in tension with expert opinion. After all, experts are, by definition, a more reliable…

Philosophy for Daleks: Nick Bostrom’s Shallow Utopia, Dylan Evans I’ve studied now Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Medicine,— And even, alas! Theology,— From end to end, with labor keen; And here, poor fool! with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before. — Goethe, Faust Part I If Nick Bostrom’s…

Yes, Save the Children from Fake AI “Friends”, Jeremy Weissman It is common to equate technological innovation with socio-political progress. In many ways this is not an unreasonable reaction. Afterall, what moves forward the course of history and our socio-political arrangements more than changes…

Calculated Belief: On Bayesian Reason and the Ethics of Judgment, Boecyàn Bourgade We live in a world overflowing with predictions; from recommendation algorithms to risk scores that tell judges, doctors, and even dating apps what to expect next. Behind many of these systems sits a quiet…

Knowledge Socialism and/or Capitalism in the Context of AI and Knowledge Governance in China and the West: An Interview with Steve Fuller, Yang Yang This interview with Professor Steve Fuller continues a dialogue that began in two earlier conversations—"Knowledge Socialism and/or Capitalism? An…

A Comment on Anderson’s “Virtuous Virtue Signaling, Morally Good Grandstanding”, William Tuckwell To virtue signal is to say or do things in order to enhance or preserve one’s moral reputation (Tosi and Warmke 2020, 14–23).[1] Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke (2016; 2020) argue that because of its…

Response to Napolitano and Harris on Epistemic Authority, Lee Basham “Show Me”—a slogan commonly associated with the state of Missouri, US. There is a third perspective on conspiracy theory and epistemic authority that might be helpful in any discussion of epistemic authority.[1] One skeptical of…

I can discuss many reasons for why we founded and developed the SERRC, but here's a handy one for current times: "Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

SERRC: Volume 14, Issue 11, 1–81, November 2025 Volume 14, Issue 11, 1–81, November 2025 ❧ Koopman, Colin. 2025. “Associationist Philosophy of Technology and Liberal Political Philosophy.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 14 (11) 1–10. ❧ Gärtner, Klaus. 2025. “AI and Epistemic…

From Grok to Grokipedia: Sociological Propaganda and Chatbot Epistemology, Eric D. Berg Abstract Susan Schneider’s article (2025) on the epistemology of Chatbots is the start to a much larger conversation scholars and educators need to have about the influence these technologies have on knowledge…

Slicing the Scientific Realism/Antirealism Debate too Thin: A Review of Lyons’s Scientific Realism, Moti Mizrahi Timothy Lyons's Scientific Realism (2025) is a book in the Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Science series. Like all books in this series, its purported aim is to provide an…

Knowledge from AI, Orestis Palermos Abstract I examine whether Generative AI systems such as ChatGPT can transmit knowledge and, if so, how epistemic responsibility for their outputs should be distributed. To address these issues, the discussion proceeds in three stages. First, I situate John…

The Logician’s Responsibility: A Response to Caret, Franci Mangraviti While generally being on board with my arguments for the existence of logic-based epistemic injustice, Colin Caret (2025) argues that “logic teaching is the epicenter of these problems”, and doubts “whether the typical approach…

Amateur Expertise and Post-Fordist Learning: A Response to Lassiter, Francesco Censon I am grateful to Charles Lassiter (2025) for his commentary on my article “The Rejected Expert and the Knowledge’s Half-Blood” (Censon 2025), and I am also extremely pleased to see that he accepts several points…

Responding to Aguisoul’s “Hinge Epistemology: No Choice but Choose?”, Jordi Fairhurst Chilton I want to start this reply by thanking Youssef Aguisoul (2025) for such a clear and engaging reply to my paper. I am honoured that my work is discussed in such detail, allowing me to be a part of a…

Extending How We Think Through Technology: A Review of Miller, Jerómino, and Zhu’s Thinking Through Science and Technology, Yuqi Peng In a world increasingly defined by rapid scientific advances, pervasive technologies, and engineered systems that mediate nearly every aspect of human life, we face…

Epistemic Principles and Dialectical Neglect: A Response to Aikin and Emery, Dalila Serebrinsky In “Deep Disagreement, Gradability, and Dialectical Neglect: Comments on Serebrinsky” (2025), Scott Aikin and Alison Emery analyze and respond to my “How Deep is your Disagreement” (2025). They offer a…

Will the Skeptic Ever Go Away? A Further Reply to McCraw, Peter Baumann I would like to thank Benjamin McCraw for his very thoughtful response (see McCraw 2025b) to my reply (see Baumann 2025) to his original article “A Reidian Transcendental Argument against Skepticism” (see McCraw 2025a). I can…

AI and Epistemic Agency: Responding to Coeckelbergh, Klaus Gärtner I worked recently with colleagues to develop a new lens, the Mind-Technology Problem (MTP),[1] to look at what a mind could be. We argue that in light of smart technology and Generative AI (GenAI), we need to re-think what minds…

Associationist Philosophy of Technology and Liberal Political Philosophy, Colin Koopman Over the past decade, I have been reading Davide Panagia’s contributions to the political theory of technology and finding his work a profound instigator to thinking. I am grateful for this opportunity to…

SERRC: Volume 14, Issue 10, 1–127, October 2025 Volume 14, Issue 10, 1–127, October 2025 ❧ McCraw, Benjamin W. 2025. “No Escape Route to the Radical Skeptic: A Reply to Baumann.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 14 (10): 1–7. ❧ Radenovic, Ljiljana. 2025. “Knut Hamsun’s Pan: Cosmic…

Frogs or Sleepwalkers? Sycophants or Props? A Reply to Schneider on Chatbot Epistemology, Steven Gubka Susan Schneider (2025) argues that AI chatbots pose a threat to human autonomy that is difficult for users to detect. Like the proverbial frog in the pot of water that is slowly heating to a…

“That’s Philosophically Irrelevant” and Other Things the Philosophy Border Police Says: A Reply to Politi, Moti Mizrahi Abstract It is difficult to engage in a constructive dialogue with philosophers who dismiss their fellow philosophers’ work as “philosophically irrelevant.” In Mizrahi (2025a), I…

Evidence Resistance and the Political Utility of Conspiracy Theories, Keith Raymond Harris Conspiracy theories have a prominent role in politics, but what is that role and why are conspiracy theories deployed to play it? M. Giulia Napolitano’s (2025) “Conspiracy Theories, Resistance to Evidence,…

Epistemic Hubris, Intellectual Virtues, and the Concept of Expertise, David Lanius Recently, Francesca Pongiglione (2025, 92) introduced the concept of epistemic hubris as an epistemic flaw that is behind “the anonymous layperson who believes that a couple of afternoons doing online research…

Taking Up Carl Mitcham’s Review of Post-Europe, Yuk Hui I would like to take this opportunity to thank Carl Mitcham for his kind review of Post-Europe (2024), a book which is at the same time intimate to me and polemic to the current political situation. It is a small book which accompanies a much…

Must Ontology be the Sole Defining Mark of a Philosophical Tradition? Addressing Ogbonnaya’s Arguments, Chinedu S. Ifeakor African philosophy is no longer debated in terms of its existence, yet it still engages with several metaphilosophical questions. These questions include: What is African…

Smart Moral Technologies and Anti-Intellectualism about Abilities, Michał Klincewicz Gloria Andrada and Adam J. Carter—"Mind-Technology Problems for Know-How Anti-Intellectualism," 2025—use the Mind-Technology problem (MTP) framework (Clowes, Gärtner, and Hipólito 2021) as a basis for theorizing…

Against “Sky Pilot Epistemology”: Suicide, Self-Harm, and the Normative Architecture of Judaism—A Response to Basham, Mark D. West Lee Basham’s essay—“Sky Pilot Epistemology: Heaven’s Gate and Masada” (2025)— proposes that the self-destructions at Masada and of the Heaven’s Gate community may be…

The Right Hinge for the Right Door: A Response to Fairhurst’s Piecemeal Hinge Epistemology, Anna Pederneschi It is particularly hard to write a critical response to an argument one overall agrees with. In “Hinge Epistemology: Why Choose?” (2025) Jordi Fairhurst shows his readers that hinge…

A Reply to Räikkä’s “When Is It Hard to Compromise?”, Clotilde Calabi Juha Räikkä’s paper (2025) challenges a widely held assumption in the literature on compromise: that compromises involving principles, judgments, or deep values are inherently more difficult to achieve than compromises involving…

The Case for Taxing Organisations that Displace Workers with AI, David Ellis TThe advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not inherently problematic. Indeed, Generative AI (AI that can creatively generate outputs, like images, poems, and music) and Large Language Models (AI-powered systems…

Knowledge Socialism and/or Capitalism? An Interview with Michael A. Peters, Yang Yang This interview with Professor Michael A. Peters is conceived as a direct response to a recent dialogue with Steve Fuller, published under the title “Knowledge Socialism and/or Capitalism? An Interview with Steve…

Applying a Reflexive and Postphenomenological Lens to ChatGPT? A Reply to Forss, Cora Olson, Sehrish Altaf, and Tsung-Yen Tsou Initially, we want to thank the editors of Techné and the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective and Anette Forss for her insightful work on nursing education.…

A Reply to Matthews on “Taking Virtuous Acts, not Virtuous Traits, as Evaluatively and Conceptually Primary”, Nastasia Müller II want to thank Taylor Matthews for their thoughtful and detailed engagement with my paper. Their commentary not only reconstructs the main commitments of Act First…

Islamization of Philosophy? Why Ṣadrā Won’t Do the Work, Agnieszka Erdt The Islamization of knowledge (or, more narrowly, philosophy) is a project that rests on the premise that reason and revelation are not in conflict. But how is this harmony operationalized? Can religious premises function with…