New at #SocialEpistemology: What’s in the Darkness? Understanding Fringe and Pseudoscience, Adam Tamas Tuboly https://social-epistemology.com/2023/09/11/whats-in-the-darkness-understanding-fringe-and-pseudoscience-adam-tamas-tuboly/

New at #SocialEpistemology: Are We Wiser Together? A Review of Cizek and Uricchio’s Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice, Tertia Gillett https://social-epistemology.com/2023/09/07/are-we-wiser-together-a-review-of-cizek-and-uricchios-collective-wisdom-co-creating-media-for-equity-and-justice-tertia-gillett/

New at #SocialEpistemology: SERRC: Volume 12, Issue 8, 1-65, August 2023 https://social-epistemology.com/2023/09/01/serrc-volume-12-issue-8-1-65-august-2023/

New at #SocialEpistemology: The Political Sins of Cybernetics: A Review of Evgeny Morozov’s The Santiago Boys, Felipe Figueroa https://social-epistemology.com/2023/08/16/the-political-sins-of-cybernetics-a-review-of-evgeny-morozovs-the-santiago-boys-felipe-figueroa/

New at #SocialEpistemology: Conspiracy Theory and the “Bodyguard of Lies”: The Bennewitz Matter, Mark D. West https://social-epistemology.com/2023/08/10/conspiracy-theory-and-the-bodyguard-of-lies-the-bennewitz-matter-mark-d-west/

New at #SocialEpistemology: William Whewell: Dramaturge of Science, Steve Fuller https://social-epistemology.com/2023/08/08/william-whewell-dramaturge-of-science-steve-fuller/

If you don't have time to read the whole article, today's edition of New Work in Philosophy has a short summary of "An Idle and Most False Imposition: Truth-Seeking, Status-Seeking and the Failure of Epistemic Vigilance."
https://open.substack.com/pub/newworkinphilosophy/p/joseph-shieber-lafayette-college?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=uauw
#Philosophy #SocialEpistemology #Research #EpistemicVigilance

New at #SocialEpistemology: Requiem for Expertise, Des Hewitt https://social-epistemology.com/2023/08/02/requiem-for-expertise-des-hewitt/

This is a fascinating result with implications for social epistemology:
"... structured information–sharing networks among clinicians significantly reduce diagnostic errors ... and improve treatment recommendations, as compared to groups of individual clinicians engaged in independent reflection.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2108290120?af=R
#SocialEpistemology #Networks

Interesting. One excerpt from the abstract:
"... mere media presence fuels implicit personality theories regarding a candidate’s vigor in political contexts." https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0289341
#SocialEpistemology #NewsMedia #PoliticalPsychology

moving here from #tw for obvious reasons, the info space has been narrowing for couple of years, the more the reason to have a look into the social epistemology of virtual space, who us with me? #socialepistemology

New at #SocialEpistemology: Walker and the Fiction of Conspiracy Theory as “Fringe”, Lee Basham https://social-epistemology.com/2023/07/28/walker-and-the-fiction-of-conspiracy-theory-as-fringe-lee-basham/

New at #SocialEpistemology: Conspiracy Theory as Public Intelligence: A Reply to Keeley, Lee Basham https://social-epistemology.com/2023/07/25/conspiracy-theory-as-public-intelligence-a-reply-to-keeley-lee-basham/

New at #SocialEpistemology: Science vs. Scientism in Consciousness Research: A Reply to Ann-Sophie Barwich, Philip Goff https://social-epistemology.com/2023/07/20/science-vs-scientism-in-consciousness-research-a-reply-to-ann-sophie-barwich-philip-goff/ https://dfaria.eu/twtxt?hashtag=2023-07-20T14:20:03Z

I have a new, open access paper up. In it I argue that, despite the widespread acceptance of the theory of epistemic vigilance, the theory is a poor fit with the evidence: while there is good reason to accept that people ARE vigilant, there is also good reason to believe that their vigilance is NOT epistemic. Instead, the evidence actually supports a theory that I dub the theory of "Machiavellian vigilance."
Check it out here: https://soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.12648/10523
#Philosophy #OpenAccess #SocialEpistemology

H. Holden Thorp in #Science on #epistemicjustice :
"It matters who does science".

https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.adi9021
#HHoldenThorp #philosophyofscience #socialepistemology

New at #SocialEpistemology: Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Season 2, Episodes 9-16 https://social-epistemology.com/2023/07/14/humanity-8-0-podcast-season-2-episodes-9-16/ https://dfaria.eu/twtxt?hashtag=2023-07-14T13:45:03Z

New at #SocialEpistemology: Deleuze to the Rescue, Ahmed Bouzid https://social-epistemology.com/2023/07/11/deleuze-to-the-rescue-ahmed-bouzid/ https://dfaria.eu/twtxt?hashtag=2023-07-11T14:50:03Z

New at #SocialEpistemology: The Value of Shooting at a Plane with a Rifle: A Reply to Dennis Masaka, Part I, Xabier Renteria-Uriarte https://social-epistemology.com/2023/06/30/the-value-of-shooting-at-a-plane-with-a-rifle-a-reply-to-dennis-masaka-part-i-xabier-renteria-uriarte/ https://dfaria.eu/twtxt?hashtag=2023-06-30T17:40:02Z

New at #SocialEpistemology: Scientism and Sentiments about Progress in Science and Academic Philosophy, Part I, Moti Mizrahi https://social-epistemology.com/2023/06/23/scientism-and-sentiments-about-progress-in-science-and-academic-philosophy-part-i-moti-mizrahi/ https://dfaria.eu/twtxt?hashtag=2023-06-23T16:55:02Z