The Irreducibility of Ignorance, Nadja El Kassar
Author Information: Nadja El Kassar, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, nadja.elkassar@gess.ethz.ch. El Kassar, Nadja. “The Irreducibility of Ignorance: A Reply to Peels.” Social Epistemology...
View ArticleA Critical Catalogue of Ignorance, Nadja El Kassar
Author Information: Nadja El Kassar, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, nadja.elkassar@gess.ethz.ch. El Kassar, Nadja. “A Critical Catalogue of Ignorance: A Reply to Patrick Bondy.” Social...
View ArticleAgainst Ideal Theory Ignorance, Susan Dieleman
Author Information: Susan Dieleman, University of Southern Illinois, Edwardsville, sdielem@siue.edu. Dieleman, Susan. “Against Ideal Theory Ignorance.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective...
View ArticleReconsidering Dismissive Incomprehension—Its Relation to Epistemic...
Matthew J. Cull (2019) has recently identified dismissive incomprehension and described it as an epistemically demolishing verbal action. It consists of a (fake) expression of ignorance or...
View ArticleEcho Chambers and Crisis Epistemology: A Reply to Santos, Benjamin Elzinga
Belief polarization, misinformation, and distrust in scientific expertise are on the rise in democracies across the globe. These worrying trends have been accompanied by some new, or at least newly...
View ArticleEcho Chambers, Epistemic Injustice, and Ignorance, Amandine Catala
The connections between echo chambers, on the one hand, and epistemic injustice and ignorance, on the other hand, are important to identify and theorize, and have indeed started to draw the attention...
View ArticleEpistemic Humility and the Social Relevance of Non-Knowledge, Alena Bleicher
In their paper, Parviainen, Kosiki, and Torkkola (2021) take as their point of departure the epistemic paradox of the need for scientific knowledge for evidence-based political decision-making in...
View ArticleWhat We Know about Producing Ignorance: A Review of Science and the...
Although it may seem to be a paradoxical claim, we know quite a lot about ignorance. In fact, our knowledge and understanding of ignorance is increasing as the burgeoning field of agnotology gains...
View ArticleThe Epistemic Injustice of Epistemic Injustice, Part I, Thomas J. Spiegel
Abstract This paper argues that the current discourse on epistemic injustice in social epistemology itself perpetuates epistemic injustice, namely hermeneutic injustice with regards to class and...
View ArticleThe Epistemic Injustice of Epistemic Injustice, Part II, Thomas J. Spiegel
2. Unwitting Complicity: The Curse of Neoliberal Propaganda Given that the discourse on epistemic injustice neglects class issues, some may say: “so what? We’re all intersectional now.” There be good...
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