James H. Collier is the Executive Editor of Social Epistemology and the Founder and Acting Editor of the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective. He is an Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech, USA. His research interests include the conduct of academic and intellectual inquiry. Previous publications include Philosophy, Rhetoric and the End of Knowledge: A New Beginning for Science and Technology Studies (with Steve Fuller, 2004) and Scientific and Technical Communication: Theory, Practice and Policy (with David Toomey, 1997).