Essays in collective epistemology
Lackey
Lackey, JenniferContributor
Lackey, JenniferEditor
We often talk about groups believing, knowing and testifying. Epistemic claims of this sort are of significant consequence, given that they bear on the moral and legal responsibilities of collective entities. A team of leading experts in the field present new, cutting-edge theories, insights and approaches in collective epistemology.
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We often talk about groups believing, knowing and testifying. Epistemic claims of this sort are of significant consequence, given that they bear on the moral and legal responsibilities of collective entities. A team of leading experts in the field present new, cutting-edge theories, insights and approaches in collective epistemology.
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Part I. The debate between summativists and non-summativists. Social process reliabilism : solving justification problems in collective epistemology / Alvin I. Goldman ; When is there a group that knows? : distributed cognition, scientific knowledge, and the social epistemic subject / Alexander Bird ; A deflationary account of group testimony / Jennifer Lackey -- Part II. General epistemic concepts in the collective domain. How to tell if a group is an agent / Philip Pettit ; The Stoic epistemic virtues of groups / Sarah Wright ; Disagreement and public controversy / David Christensen -- Part III. Individual and collective epistemology. Social roots of human knowledge / Ernest Sosa ; Belief, acceptance, and what happens in groups : some methodological considerations / Margaret Gilbert and Daniel Pilchman -- Part IV. Collective entities and formal epistemology. Individual coherence and group coherence / Rachael Briggs, Fabrizio Cariani, Kenny Easwaran, and Branden Fitelson ; When to defer to supermajority testimony--and when not / Christian List.
Social epistemology
Knowledge, Theory of
Knowledge, Sociology of
Philosophy
Philosophy & Religion
Speculative Philosophy