Essays in Collective Epistemology
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 1 December 2016
- ISBN 9780199665808
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages262 pages
- Size 235x158x14 mm
- Weight 402 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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. For instance, we ask whether the Bush Administration had good reasons for believing that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, or whether BP knew that its equipment was faulty before the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Epistemic claims of this sort often have enormously significant consequences, given the ways they bear on the moral and legal responsibilities of collective entities. Despite the importance of these epistemic claims, there has been surprisingly little philosophical work shedding light on these phenomena, their consequences, and the broader implications that follow for epistemology in general. Essays in Collective Epistemology aims to fill this gap in the literature by bringing together new papers in this area by some of the leading figures in social epistemology.
The volume is divided into four parts and contains ten articles written on a range of topics in collective epistemology. All of the papers focus on fundamental issues framing the epistemological literature on groups, and offer new insights or developments to the current debates: some do so by providing novel examinations of the epistemological relationship that groups bear to their members, while others point to new, cutting edge approaches to theorizing about concepts and issues related to collective entities. Anyone working in epistemology, or concerned with issues involving the social dimensions of knowledge, should find the papers in this book both interesting and valuable.
It will surely contribute to the ongoing debates in collective epistemology and will serve as an important resource for students and scholars alike.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part One: The Debate between Summativists and Non-Summativists
Social Process Reliabilism: Solving Justification Problems in Collective Epistemology
When Is There a Group that Knows? Distributed Cognition, Scientific Knowledge, and the Social Epistemic Subject
A Deflationary Account of Group Testimony
Part Two: General Epistemic Concepts in the Collective Domain
How to Tell if a Group Is an Agent
The Stoic Epistemic Virtues of Groups
Disagreement and Public Controversy
Part Three: Individual and Collective Epistemology
Social Roots of Human Knowledge
Belief, Acceptance, and What Happens in Groups: Some Methodological Considerations
Part Four: Collective Entities and Formal Epistemology
Individual Coherence and Group Coherence
When to Defer to Supermajority Testimony--and When Not
Index
