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Collective Epistemology / ed. by Hans Bernhard Schmid, Daniel Sirtes, Marcel Weber.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Epistemische Studien / Epistemic Studies : Philosophy of Science, Cognition and Mind ; 20Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (241 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110322231
  • 9783110322583
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BD161 .C65 2011eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Content -- PART I -- Introduction -- Groups as Rational Sources -- Can Groups Be Epistemic Agents? -- Collective Epistemic Agency: Virtue and the Spice of Vice -- PART II -- An Account of Group Knowledge -- On Dialectical Justification of Group Beliefs -- PART III -- Probabilistic Proofs and the Collective Epistemic Goals of Mathematicians -- Collective Epistemology: The Intersection of Group Membership and Expertise -- Experimentation versus Theory Choice: A Social-Epistemological Approach -- Gilbert’s Account of Norm-Guided Behaviour: A Critique
Summary: „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.
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Frontmatter -- Content -- PART I -- Introduction -- Groups as Rational Sources -- Can Groups Be Epistemic Agents? -- Collective Epistemic Agency: Virtue and the Spice of Vice -- PART II -- An Account of Group Knowledge -- On Dialectical Justification of Group Beliefs -- PART III -- Probabilistic Proofs and the Collective Epistemic Goals of Mathematicians -- Collective Epistemology: The Intersection of Group Membership and Expertise -- Experimentation versus Theory Choice: A Social-Epistemological Approach -- Gilbert’s Account of Norm-Guided Behaviour: A Critique

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„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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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