The epistemic life of groups : essays in the epistemology of collectives / edited by Michael S. Brady and Miranda Fricker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brady, Michael, 1965- editor.

Fricker, Miranda, editor.

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social epistemology.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Social epistemology has been flourishing in recent years, expanding and making connections with political philosophy, virtue epistemology, philosophy of science, and feminist philosophy. The philosophy of the social world too is flourishing, with burgeoning work in the metaphysics of the social world, collective responsibility, group action, and group belief. The new philosophical vista now more clearly presenting itself is collective epistemology-the epistemology of groups and institutions. Groups engage in epistemic activity all the time-whether it be the active collective inquiry of scientific research groups or crime detection units, or the evidential deliberations of tribunals and juries, or the informational efforts of the voting population in general-and yet in philosophy there is still relatively little epistemology of groups to help explore these epistemic practices and their various dimensions of social and philosophical significance. The aim of this book is to address this lack, by presenting original essays in the field of collective epistemology, exploring these regions of epistemic practice and their significance for Epistemology, Political Philosophy, Ethics, and the Philosophy of Science. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Epistemology

1 Mutuality and Assertion / Sanford C. Goldberg Goldberg, Sanford C. 11

2 Fault and No-Fault Responsibility for Implicit Prejudice: A Space for Epistemic 'Agent-Regret' / Miranda Fricker Fricker, Miranda 33

3 On Knowing What We're Doing Together: Groundless Group Self-Knowledge and Plural Self-Blindness / Hans Bernhard Schmid Schmid, Hans Bernhard 51

Part II Ethics

4 The Social Epistemology of Morality: Learning from the Forgotten History of the Abolition of Slavery / Elizabeth Anderson Anderson, Elizabeth 75

5 Group Emotion and Group Understanding / Michael S. Brady Brady, Michael S. 95

6 Changing Our Mind / Glen Pettigrove Pettigrove, Glen 111

Part III Political Philosophy

7 The Epistemic Circumstances of Democracy / Fabienne Peter Peter, Fabienne 133

8 The Transfer of Duties: From Individuals to States and Back Again / Stephanie Collins Collins, Stephanie, Holly Lawford-Smith Lawford-Smith, Holly 150

9 Four Types of Moral Wriggle Room: Uncovering Mechanisms of Racial Discrimination / Kai Spiekermann Spiekermann, Kai 173

Part IV Philosophy of Science

10 Collective Belief, Kuhn, and the String Theory Community / James Owen Weatherall Weatherall, James Owen, Margaret Gilbert Gilbert, Margaret 191

11 Collaborative Research, Scientific Communities, and the Social Diffusion of Trustworthiness / Torsten Wilholt Wilholt, Torsten 218.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 17, 2016).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780191077739

0191077739

9780191820380

Publisher Number:

40025967553

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