Essays in collective epistemology / edited by Jennifer Lackey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lackey, Jennifer, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social epistemology.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 253 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 10, 2014).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-174861-7

OCLC:

904183699