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…

Knut Hamsun’s Pan: Cosmic Connections from Within, Ljiljana Radenovic Knut Hamsun’s Pan is famous for its love story and the extraordinary psychological portrayal of infatuation. Its very title and the magical North, where wilderness seeps into human settlements, reveal its romantic backdrop. What…

No Escape Route to the Radical Skeptic: A Reply to Baumann, Benjamin W. McCraw I want to thank Peter Baumann for the thoughtful and gracious reply (2025) to my paper (2025). At every point in that piece, Baumann’s commentary is charitable but fair in pressing important worries for and questions of…

SERRC: Volume 14, Issue 9, 1–146, September 2025 Volume 14, Issue 9, 1–146, September 2025 ❧ Dembić, Sanja. 2025. “Paradigm Cases and Epistemic Aims in the Inquiry of Conspiracy Theories.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 14 (9): 1–6. ❧ Politi, Vincenzo. 2025. “Kuhn and the Great…

No Epistemic Respect for Bullshit Machines or LLMs, Moti Mizrahi Abstract The excitement about Large Language Models (LLMs) has led some to consider the possibility that they could be artificial epistemic authorities. For instance, after considering arguments for and against granting LLMs the…

The Sorites of Scientific Truth: Considering Elgin’s ‘Felicitous Falsehoods’, Mark D. West Catherine Z. Elgin’s Epistemic Ecology (2025) presents a bold reconceptualization of epistemology that challenges the traditional spectatorial view of knowledge in favor of an agential, ecological approach…

Interruptions in the Age of Automation: On Bates’s An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence, Ariyan Nazemi David W. Bates’s An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence enters at a moment when our understanding of the human is caught between two powerful but incompatible narratives. In the…

Thinking Through Heidegger: Masjids in Malabar and the Politics of Dwelling, Muhammed Nishad This essay attempts to comprehend how one might think about old masjids in Malabar using Martin Heidegger's idea of "dwelling," while also relating it to Talal Asad's concept of "tradition," and Karl…

Reason, Democracy, and Mind: A Popular Response, Jeffrey Kripal We don’t need a paradigm shift. We need a revolution.— Nicole Bauer I love intellectuals. I crave robust intellectual exchange, whether that conversation is challenging or affirming … or both at the same time, as the best…

Actually Thinking Impossibly: UFOs, Scientific Method, and Uncanny Science, Hussein Ali Agrama Like Foucault, I suspect that a new anthropology, a new form of mind, a new ‘episteme’ is taking shape, as the previous understandings of the human disappear, like figures written into the sand on a…

Grasping Connections via Hyperlinks? A Reply to de Ridder’s “Online Illusions of Understanding”, Claus Beisbart Abstract Since its inception, philosophy has engaged in a critical examination of our claims to knowledge and understanding. In a recent paper, Jeroen de Ridder extends the…

A Reply to Lloyd’s “In Defense of Robust Moral Encroachment”, Davide Fassio According to moral encroachment, whether a doxastic attitude—such as a belief—is justified depends partly on moral considerations. For instance, if holding a belief involves a high risk of harm, one needs stronger evidence…

Save the Children? AI Companions and Fantasies of Intimacy, Daniel Story There’s a venerable tradition of worrying about the human tendency to get lost in fantasy. Plato wanted to regulate myth making; Jesus recommended you gouge out that lusty eye of yours; Augustine prayed for relief from sexy…

Epistemic Authenticity, Skilled Interactions, and Strategic Parallel Processing: A Dialogue with Levy and Kawall, Adam Green This reply is part of a dialogue in which something interesting emerges from the contrasting perspectives. Neil Levy and Jason Kawall have diametrically opposed positions on…

Calls for Contributions Routledge has commissioned a Handbook on Non-Belief to which members of the SERRC collective are invited to contribute. It is a follow-up to this recently published book by the anthropologist Jack David Eller, Apisteology: The Study of Not-Believing. As you can see, the…

AI, Social Media, and Epistemic Agency: A Reply to Coeckelbergh, Matthias Steup and Wen Xu In “AI and Epistemic Agency: How AI Influences Belief Revision and Its Normative Implications” (2025) Mark Coeckelbergh argues that AI, as currently used in the inner workings of social media, undermines…

The Feminist Emancipation of Logic: A Reply to Mangraviti, Colin R. Caret In “The Contribution of Logic to Epistemic Injustice” (2024) Franci Mangraviti argues that certain forms of epistemic injustice are tied to logic. This is largely because logic structures our concepts, it has associations…

Yuk Hui’s Post-Europe: A Review, Carl Mitcham Post-Europe is the most concise and personal in a series of works by Yuk Hui—one of the most original and productive young world philosophers of technology. Its core two chapters are adapted from lectures delivered at Taipei National University of the…

Virtuous Virtue Signaling, Morally Good Grandstanding, Derek Anderson William Tuckwell’s “Virtue Signalling to Signal Trustworthiness, Avoid Distrust, and Scaffold Self-Trust” (2024) offers a defense of virtue-signaling speech acts against recent criticism by Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke (2020),…

Kuhn and the Great Man of Science: What’s the Argument? A Reply to Mizrahi, Vincenzo Politi Scientific communities can and should be isolated without prior recourse to paradigms; the latter can then be discovered by scrutinizing the behaviour of a given community’s members. If this book were being…

Paradigm Cases and Epistemic Aims in the Inquiry of Conspiracy Theories, Sanja Dembić Abstract Matthew Shields (2022) raises two criticisms of generalism: that it makes unjustified general claims about Conspiracy Theorists and that it fails to consider “Dominant Institution Conspiracy Theories…

SERRC: Volume 14, Issue 8, 1–75, August 2025 Val Dusek: A Memorial, Francis Remedios. Book: ❦ Soler, Léna. 2025. Contingency Is Here to Stay—in Science as in Any Other Human Enterprise. Blacksburg, VA: Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective. Volume 14, Issue 8, 1–75, August 2025 ❧ Basham,…

Knowledge Socialism and/or Capitalism? An Interview with Steve Fuller, Yang Yang This interview with Steve Fuller explores core tensions in contemporary knowledge production: between intellectual property and collective knowledge, institutional credit systems and knowledge circulation, and…

Table of Contents, Contingency Is Here to Stay—in Science as in Any Other Human Enterprise, Léna Soler Contingency Is Here to Stay—in Science as in Any Other Human Enterprise Léna Soler 2025 Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective Blacksburg, VA © Léna Soler Université de Lorraine Archives…

Part I, Contingency Is Here to Stay, Léna Soler Part I 1. Introduction ❧ 1.1 A Stimulating Philosophical Dialogue about the Inevitability or the Contingency of Scientific Achievements ❧ 1.2 The Inevitabilist / Contingentist Debate Recently Introduced in Philosophy of Science ❧ 1.3 Background and…

Part II, Contingency Is Here to Stay, Léna Soler Part II 2. A Systematic Reconstruction of Perović’s Inevitabilist View ❧ 2.1 The Indispensable Roles of Counterfactual History in the Philosophy of Science • 2.1.1 Main Functions and Potential Value of Counterfactual History • 2.1.2 Methodological…

Part III, Contingency Is Here to Stay, Léna Soler Part III 3. Justificatory Issues: What Arguments in Support of a Convergent-Teleological Inevitabilist View à la Perović? ❧ 3.1 Perović’s Principal Argument: The Constraints Exerted by the “Fundamental Joints and Junctures of Nature” • 3.1.1 What…

Part IV, Contingency Is Here to Stay, Léna Soler Part IV 4. Brief Conclusions ❧ 4.1 The Contingency of Scientific Achievements: Due to Inevitable Features of Human Knowledge Acquisition? ❧ 4.2 Should We Worry about the Contingency of Scientific Achievements? | Table of Contents | | Part I | | Part…

References, Contingency Is Here to Stay, Léna Soler References | Table of Contents | | Part I | | Part II | | Part III | Part IV | | References | Acuña, Pablo. 2021. “Charting the Landscape of Interpretation, Theory Rivalry, and Underdetermination in Quantum Mechanics.” Synthese 198: 1711–1740.…

Decolonization or Islamization? A Reply to Toroghi and Noghani, Muhammad U. Faruque In their article, “A Philosophical Explanation for the Islamization of Philosophy” (2024) Amir Rastin Toroghi and Vahideh Fakhar Noghani offer a compelling argument for rethinking the conceptual foundations of the…