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Social Epistemology Journal
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Social Epistemology is an academic journal and forum for philosophical and social scientific enquiry that incorporates the work of scholars from a variety of disciplines who share a common concern with the production, assessment and validation of knowledge
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"Racism, Meta-Lucidity, and Epistemic Burdening: Learning from James Baldwin" by Pierre Le Morvan doi.org/10.1080/0269... This paper builds on two of James Baldwin’s insights concerning the epistemic effects of American racism on Black Americans. #Metalucidity #epistemicburdening #racism #knowledge
Racism, Meta-Lucidity, and Epistemic Burdening: Learning from James Baldwin
This paper builds on two of James Baldwin’s insights concerning the epistemic effects of American racism on Black Americans. I argue that he anticipated important points later raised by José Medina...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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➡️🔐 [OPEN ACCESS] "Social Epistemology as an Epistemological Foundation for Library and Information Science" by Dominic Dixon doi.org/10.1080/0269... Library and Information Science lacks a clearly articulated epistemological foundation #socialepistemology #journal #library #normativity #article
Social Epistemology as an Epistemological Foundation for Library and Information Science
Despite its fundamental concern with knowledge acquisition and dissemination, Library and Information Science (LIS) lacks a clearly articulated epistemological foundation. This paper addresses two ...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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NEW ISSUE: Social Epistemology, Volume 39, Issue 6 (2025). www.tandfonline.com/toc/tsep20/c... New Waves in the Philosophy of Epistemic Authority and Expert Testimony; Guest editors: Rico Hauswald and Pedro Schmechtig #socialepistemology #journal #issue #research #routledge #epistemology #authority
November 2, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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"A Challenge to the Distributive Paradigm of Testimonial Injustice" by Lisa Madura doi.org/10.1080/0269... This article challenges the distributive paradigm of testimonial injustice #epistemicinjustice #testimony #injustice #credibility #socialepistemology #journal #academia #article #discourse
A Challenge to the Distributive Paradigm of Testimonial Injustice
This article challenges the distributive paradigm of testimonial injustice and contests the claim that there is a distinct form of ‘distributive testimonial injustice’ revealed by this paradigm. Di...
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November 2, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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"Making Sense of Epistemic Authority" by Dominik Jarczewski
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This paper explores the debate surrounding epistemic authority. #epistemicauthority #preemption #expertise #Zagzebski #socialepistemology #journal
Making Sense of Epistemic Authority
This paper explores the debate surrounding epistemic authority, questioning whether experts’ opinions bind us and if there is a duty to believe based on their testimony. Zagzebski’s classical theor...
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November 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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➡️ 🔓 [OPEN ACCESS] "Respectful Disposal: Spatial and Material Practices of Incinerating Necro-Waste" by Mark Shtanov doi.org/10.1080/0269...
The article inquires into the methods used for incinerating discarded human remains #waste #respect #socialepistemology #journal Viewer discretion advised
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October 17, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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➡️ 🔓 [OPEN ACCESS] "The University, Epistemic Power, and Institutional Epistemic Responsibilities" by Iris M. Lechner, Jeroen de Ridder, René van Woudenberg & Solmu Anttila
doi.org/10.1080/0269... #epistemicpower #responsibilities #universities #MichelFoucault #socialepistemology #journal #article
The University, Epistemic Power, and Institutional Epistemic Responsibilities
Some social institutions have clear epistemic aims: to create, accumulate, exchange, and disseminate knowledge, understanding, and other epistemic goods. While much recent literature in social epis...
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October 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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"Particularism Reaffirmed: Why Conspiracy Theories (Variously Defined) Should Be Judged on Their Own Merits" by Kurtis Hagen, M R. X. Dentith & Charles Pigden
doi.org/10.1080/0269... #socialepistemology #journal #article #conspiracytheory #generalism #particularism #expertise #article #academia
Particularism Reaffirmed: Why Conspiracy Theories (Variously Defined) Should Be Judged on Their Own Merits
In the philosophical debate over the epistemic status of conspiracy theories, the view that each theory ought to be judged on its own merits, ‘particularism’, has the upper hand. But challenges to ...
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October 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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"Building Extended Minds" by Paul Smart
doi.org/10.1080/0269... The mind–technology problem refers to issues that lie at the intersection of technology development and the philosophy of mind. #socialepistemology #journal #mind #engineering #extendedmind #constitutiverelevance #knwoledge
Building Extended Minds
The mind–technology problem refers to issues that lie at the intersection of technology development and the philosophy of mind. In the present paper, I explore one aspect of the mind–technology pro...
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October 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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"What Groups Can Tell Us About Expertise" by Benedikt Leitgeb
doi.org/10.1080/0269... The nature of expertise is usually discussed only within the confines of individualistic epistemology [...]. #socialepistemology #journal #groups #veritism #expertise #epistemicauthority #authority #research
What Groups Can Tell Us About Expertise
The nature of expertise is usually discussed only within the confines of individualistic epistemology, despite the fact that many tasks typically performed by individual experts are now performed b...
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October 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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"Beyond Fact-Checking: The Importance of Logic-Checking in Public Discourse" by Shane Ryan & Matthew Hammerton
doi.org/10.1080/0269... This paper makes the case for what we call ‘logic-checking’. #socialepistemology #journal #criticalthinking #factchecking #facts #fakenews #researcg #academia
Beyond Fact-Checking: The Importance of Logic-Checking in Public Discourse
This paper makes the case for what we call ‘logic-checking’. The paper begins by providing an overview of the development of fact-checking and of how fact-checking functions. As part of this discus...
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October 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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"Artificiality for Balanced Integration: A Virtue-Epistemological Framework Bridging Scientific Objectivity and Social Values" by Zhiqing Wang
doi.org/10.1080/0269... Veritistic governance in science marginalises epistemic minorities [...] #socialepistemology #journal #epistemicjustice
Artificiality for Balanced Integration: A Virtue-Epistemological Framework Bridging Scientific Objectivity and Social Values
Veritistic governance in science marginalises epistemic minorities, such as TCM practitioners and Global South scholars, through normative lock-in, gatekeeping, and myopia. This paper introduces Ar...
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October 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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💡 [NEW ISSUE] Special Issue. Volume 39, Issue 5 (2025)
www.tandfonline.com/toc/tsep20/3...
#socialepistemology #epistemology #academia #research #journal #publication #narratives #pedagogy #obstetrics #chatbots #ai
September 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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[OPEN ACCESS] "Conspiracy Theories, Resistance to Evidence, and Propaganda: How Conspiracy Theories Advance Political Causes" by M. Giulia Napolitano doi.org/10.1080/0269... [A]ppeals to alleged conspiracies seem to advance political causes... #socialepistemology #conspiracytheories #propaganda
Conspiracy Theories, Resistance to Evidence, and Propaganda: How Conspiracy Theories Advance Political Causes
Whether deliberate or not, appeals to alleged conspiracies seem to advance political causes in an extraordinarily powerful way. In this paper, I offer an account of why this is so. I argue that som...
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September 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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OPEN ACCESS-> "Flexible or Rigid? A Functionalist Approach to Epistemic Standards" by Enno Fischer & Tammo Lossau doi.org/10.1080/0269... Discussions on epistemic standards typically lack a more general approach to what standards are #socialepistemology #journal #research #functionalism #standards
Flexible or Rigid? A Functionalist Approach to Epistemic Standards
Epistemic standards have attracted some attention in recent discussions in social epistemology and philosophy of science. Yet these discussions typically lack a more general approach to what standa...
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August 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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[OPEN ACCESS] "Betting on Scams" by Neil Levy doi.org/10.1080/0269... Scams [...] are responsible for huge financial and psychological harms. Up to now, however, there’s been no philosophical investigation of how they work. #socialepistemology #journal #scams #misinformation #epistemicvigilance
Betting on Scams
Scams of all sorts are responsible for huge financial and psychological harms. Up to now, however, there’s been no philosophical investigation of how they work. I argue that while the success of so...
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August 2, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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"Existential Testimonial Injustice" by Emily Goldbeck doi.org/10.1080/0269... Existential testimonial injustice occurs if a testifier is wronged in their capacity as a giver of knowledge... #trans #epistemology #injustice #artice #socialepistemology #journal #article #academia
Existential Testimonial Injustice
Existential testimonial injustice occurs iff a testifier is wronged in their capacity as a giver of knowledge due to the audience’s systematic nullification of the testifier’s social identity. An a...
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August 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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"Liberational Historical and Philosophical Arc to Queer Liberation Theory" by Nick J. Mulé & Kuir ë Garang doi.org/10.1080/0269... Queer liberation is a concept that is derived from the tenets of the late 1960s and early ‘70s. #socialepistemology #queer #article #philosophy #liberation #research
Liberational Historical and Philosophical Arc to Queer Liberation Theory
Queer liberation is a concept that is derived from the tenets and principles of the gay liberation movement of the late 1960s and early ‘70s. The notion of liberation has a much longer history and ...
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July 25, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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"Trusting Conspiracy Theories" by Dean Joseph doi.org/10.1080/0269... Conspiracy theories have mainly been of interest to social epistemologists in terms of whether one can be warranted in believing them. #socialepistemology #article #academia #conspiracy #distrust #belief #publication #research
Trusting Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy theories have mainly been of interest to social epistemologists in terms of whether one can be warranted in believing them. In this literature, believing a conspiracy theory is often und...
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July 25, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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[NEW ISSUE] Special Issue. Volume 39, Issue 4 (2025). "Liminal Identities and Epistemic Injustice". Guest editors: Anna Boncompagni & Annalisa Coliva www.tandfonline.com/toc/tsep20/3... #socialepistemology #publication #academia #research #article #scholarship #epistemicinjustice #identity
July 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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"Stop Calling It ‘Revenge Porn’. Hermeneutical Injustice in Image-Based Sexual Abuse" by Marco Viola & Eleonora Volta doi.org/10.1080/0269... Scholars and activists have introduced the notion of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA)... #gender #injustice #socialepistemology #objectification #misogyny
Stop Calling It ‘Revenge Porn’. Hermeneutical Injustice in Image-Based Sexual Abuse
Scholars and activists have introduced the notion of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) to describe any act involving the non-consensual production, distribution, or threat of distribution of private ...
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July 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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🔓 ➡️ [OPEN ACCESS] "The Testimonial Double Bind for Disabled People" by Avram Hiller doi.org/10.1080/0269...
Disabled people face a testimonial double bind about being believed and giving testimony #disability #identity #testimonial #injustice #socialepistemology #journal #article
The Testimonial Double Bind for Disabled People
Disabled people face a testimonial double bind: Either (1) they give entirely positive testimony about their disability, which may not be believed, or (2) they give some negative testimony about th...
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July 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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[OPEN ACCESS] "The Vice of Nepotism: The Moral and the Epistemic" by Paul O. Irikefe doi.org/10.1080/0269... Nepotism forms a core part of our everyday moral and socio-political vocabulary... #Nepotism #epistemicvices #institutionalepistemology #echochamber #socialepistemology #journal #academia
The Vice of Nepotism: The Moral and the Epistemic
Nepotism forms a core part of our everyday moral and socio-political vocabulary, yet we lack a coherent account of it. The aim of this paper is to provide that account. I argue that nepotism (i.e. ...
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July 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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➡️🔓[OPEN ACCESS] Research Letter: "Chatbot Epistemology" by Susan Schneider doi.org/10.1080/0269...
Considering epistemological challenges that arise with increasingly widespread use of AI chatbots. #epistemology #largelanguagemodels #llms #chatbots #AIethics #AI #ethics #socialepistemology #journal
Chatbot Epistemology
This piece considers the epistemological challenges that arise with the increasingly widespread use of AI chatbots. I articulate a problem that they present—the ‘boiling frog problem’. According to...
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June 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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"Misplaced Trust in Expertise: Pseudo-Experts and Unreliable Experts" by Michel Croce & Neri Marsili doi.org/10.1080/0269... The persistence of scientific misconceptions is often attributed to a decline in trust in experts. #socialepistemology #journal #article #trust #expertise #misinformation
Misplaced Trust in Expertise: Pseudo-Experts and Unreliable Experts
The persistence of scientific misconceptions is often attributed to a decline in trust in experts. Against this simplistic picture, we emphasise that misplaced trust in expertise plays a crucial ro...
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June 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM