Collective Epistemology
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Hans Bernhard Schmid, Daniel Sirtes, Marcel Weber
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Collective Epistemology
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
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9783110322583
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Epistemische Studien / Epistemic StudiesISSN
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1
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CHF 141.90
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20. und 21. Jahrhundert
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English
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241
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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.
Introduction DANIEL SIRTES, HANS BERNHARD SCHMID, AND MARCEL WEBER
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Groups as Rational Sources DEBORAH TOLLEFSEN
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Can Groups Be Epistemic Agents? KAY MATHIESEN
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Collective Epistemic Agency: Virtue and the Spice of Vice ANITA KONZELMANN ZIV
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PART II
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An Account of Group Knowledge RAIMO TUOMELA
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On Dialectical Justification of Group Beliefs RAUL HAKLI
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PART III
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Probabilistic Proofs and the Collective Epistemic Goals of Mathematicians DON FALLIS
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Collective Epistemology: The Intersection of Group Membership and Expertise ROBERT EVANS
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Experimentation versus Theory Choice: A Social-Epistemological Approach MARCEL WEBER
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Gilbert’s Account of Norm-Guided Behaviour: A Critique CAROLINE M. BAUMANN
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