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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825155103321

Titolo

Collective epistemology / / Hans Bernhard Schmid, Daniel Sirtes, Marcel Weber (eds)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt, : Ontos Verlag, 2011

ISBN

3-11-032258-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Epistemische Studien ; ; Bd. 20

Altri autori (Persone)

SchmidHans Bernhard

SirtesDaniel

WeberMarcel

Disciplina

121

Soggetti

Knowledge, Theory of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Content -- PART I -- Introduction / Sirtes, Daniel / Schmid, Hans Bernhard / Weber, Marcel -- Groups as Rational Sources / Tollefsen, Deborah -- Can Groups Be Epistemic Agents? / Mathiesen, Kay -- Collective Epistemic Agency: Virtue and the Spice of Vice / Ziv, Anita Konzelmann -- PART II -- An Account of Group Knowledge / Tuomela, Raimo -- On Dialectical Justification of Group Beliefs / Hakli, Raul -- PART III -- Probabilistic Proofs and the Collective Epistemic Goals of Mathematicians / Fallis, Don -- Collective Epistemology: The Intersection of Group Membership and Expertise / Evans, Robert -- Experimentation versus Theory Choice: A Social-Epistemological Approach / Weber, Marcel -- Gilbert's Account of Norm-Guided Behaviour: A Critique / BAUMANN, CAROLINE M.

Sommario/riassunto

„We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…” This collection of essays addresses a philosophical problem raised by the first clause of these famous words. Does each signatory of the Declaration of Independence hold these truths individually, do they share some kind of a common attitude, or is there a single subject over and above the heads of its individual members that possesses a belief? “Collective Epistemology” is a name for the view that cognitive attitudes can be attributed to groups in a non-summative sense. The aim of this volume is to examine this claim, and to place it in the wider context of recent epistemological debates about the role of sociality in



knowledge acquisition, in virtue and social epistemology, and in philosophy and sociology of science.