Journal of Social Epistemology Meeting

Abstract

Our journal, Social Epistemology, has operated in collaboration with 4S since its inception, when STS and Social Epistemology were seen as fellow travelers, aiming to forge a new synthesis among interdisciplinary approaches to knowledge. However, in the aftermath of the Science Wars, and in part as a result of methodological reorientations by leading figures in each field, this collaborative relationship has been interrupted, casting Social Epistemology adrift. At the same time, philosophers in the Analytic tradition, whose “pristine” vision of social epistemology historically showed little concern for the interdisciplinary themes of our journal, have embraced concepts such as epistemic justice or the critique of ideology, opening up their inquiry to the socio-political and ethical dimensions of knowledge. As we enter a new era, with Georg Theiner at the helm, we welcome both old and new friends of the journal to discuss the future of Social Epistemology.

Discussants

• Jim Collier, Virginia Tech

• Steve Fuller, University of Warwick

• Joan Leach, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science

• Adam Riggio, Royal Crown College of Business and Technology

• Robert Frodeman, University of North Texas

• Adam Briggle, University of North Texas

• Raphael Sassower, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

• Francis Remedios, Independent Scholar

• Alcibiades Malapi-Nelson, Humber College

• Orestis Palermos

• Kean Birch, York University

• Gwen Ottinger, Drexel University

• Luis Ignacio Reyes-Galindo

Session Organizer

• Georg Theiner, Villanova University