On transparency and accountability of scientific work towards citizens at large. (CDN)

On the importance of disagreement & dissent in science and scientifically informed policy-making.

Nice piece in The Conversation by @STWorg and John Cook. Conspiracy theories use both faulty information and faulty reasoning, and they offer some ways to latch onto the reasoning component. (EA) theconversation.com/coronavirus-co… via The Conversation

A few things worth keeping in mind they don't really discuss (it's a short piece): 1. When to engage in argumentation with conspiracy theorists and when engaging can have adverse effects. 2. Dissuading from conspiracy is not just abt content of argument, eg affects matter. (EA)

Religious conversion aside, let's remember that there are often epistemic benefits to good-faith [sic] discussion and argumentation from points of epistemic diversity! (EA)

First blog post of the project! Elias' preliminary thoughts on the two 'What is Enlightenment?' essays by Kant and Foucault 👇

Is 'following the science' a straightforward matter? Short answer: no. (CDN)

SEA research output spotted! (CDN)

S Dubinsky, KE Smith, & M Gavin: there is evidence of language-based discrimination related to corona. L-B discrimination could to be v important wrt the circulation of knowledge, but is totally underrepresented in the epistemic injustice literature. (EA) undark.org/2020/05/05/cov…

SEA's Hein Duijf discusses digital contract tracing technologies and the issues they need to address with regard to Covid-19 in our newest research blog post, check it out! (EA) seavuerc.wixsite.com/ercsea/post/th…

New Social Epistemology of Argumentation project output!

The project having 'impact' overseas 😁

First meeting of the SEA team with its new members! From right to left: Silvia Ivani, Merel Talbi, Caglar Dede, Colin Rittberg on screen, Hein Duijf, Elias Anttila and Prof. Catarina Dutilh Novaes So happy to have these awesome people working with us! (CDN)

John Greco talks social epistemology and polarization on the Open for Debate blog: (EA) blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebate/…

Zelic and Milos "With a little help from our civic friends?" on Open for Debate blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebate/…

For The Conversation, Prof Lisa Bortolotti & Anna Ichino argue that conspiracy theories are 1) attempts to protect mental health 2) rooted in trying to find explanations rooted in people's intentions 3) effective bc of certain existing group identities. ⤵️ theconversation.com/conspiracy-the…

My article 'Carnap meets Foucault: conceptual engineering and genealogical investigations' is now available online. It was supposed to be Open Access, but somehow it is not (I've contacted #TaylorandFrancis @tandfstem about the problem). Abstract ⬇️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Here's one theory in the social epistemology of argumentation (EA):