I write on Jonathan Rauch’s new book here.

I doubt that his exhortations and calls for a return to twentieth-century values in those fields will work.

I think that if we are going to fix the problem with social epistemology, we are going to need new prestige hierarchies to replace the old ones. The Fantasy Intellectual Teams project offers a more radical way of overcoming the corruption of the intellectual status game.

There is much to like in The Constitution of Knowledge. I especially like the focus on social epistemology–especially after my disappointing dialog with Michael Huemer on the topic.

But Rauch’s book also annoyed me a great deal. Perhaps if I am in a better mood when I write a full review, I will put a higher weight on what appealed to me and a lower weight on what annoyed me.