Overview

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.

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Author:   Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.402kg
ISBN:  

9780199665808

ISBN 10:   019966580
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   01 December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Jennifer Lackey: Introduction Part One: The Debate between Summativists and Non-Summativists 1: Alvin I. Goldman: Social Process Reliabilism: Solving Justification Problems in Collective Epistemology 2: Alexander Bird: When Is There a Group that Knows? Distributed Cognition, Scientific Knowledge, and the Social Epistemic Subject 3: Jennifer Lackey: A Deflationary Account of Group Testimony Part Two: General Epistemic Concepts in the Collective Domain 4: Philip Pettit: How to Tell if a Group Is an Agent 5: Sarah Wright: The Stoic Epistemic Virtues of Groups 6: David Christensen: Disagreement and Public Controversy Part Three: Individual and Collective Epistemology 7: Ernest Sosa: Social Roots of Human Knowledge 8: Margaret Gilbert and Daniel Pilchman: Belief, Acceptance, and What Happens in Groups: Some Methodological Considerations Part Four: Collective Entities and Formal Epistemology 9: Rachael Briggs, Fabrizio Cariani, Kenny Easwaran, and Branden Fitelson: Individual Coherence and Group Coherence 10: Christian List: When to Defer to Supermajority Testimony--and When Not Index

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It will surely contribute to the ongoing debates in collective epistemology and will serve as an important resource for students and scholars alike. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. N. D. Smith, CHOICE

`It will surely contribute to the ongoing debates in collective epistemology and will serve as an important resource for students and scholars alike.' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews `Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty.' N. D. Smith, CHOICE

Author Information

Jennifer Lackey is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. Her recent research focuses on the epistemology of groups, the epistemology of testimony, norms of assertion, and the epistemic significance of disagreement. She has co-edited (with Ernest Sosa) The Epistemology of Testimony (OUP, 2006) and (with David Christensen) The Epistemology of Disagreement: New Essays (OUP, 2013) and is the author of Learning from Words: Testimony as a Source of Knowledge (OUP, 2008). She is the recipient of a Mellon Foundation Grant for a Sawyer Seminar (2014), the Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (2007), and a Summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2002). She is also winner of the Young Epistemologist Prize (2005).

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