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The Philosophy of Group Polarization - Epistemology, Metaphysics, Psychology (Hardcover)
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The Philosophy of Group Polarization - Epistemology, Metaphysics, Psychology (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Epistemology
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Group polarization-the tendency of groups to incline toward more
extreme positions than initially held by their individual
members-has been rigorously studied by social psychologists, though
in a way that has overlooked important philosophical questions.
This is the first book-length treatment of group polarization from
a philosophical perspective. The phenomenon of group polarization
raises several important metaphysical and epistemological
questions. From a metaphysical point of view, can group
polarization, understood as an epistemic feature of a group, be
reduced to epistemic features of its individual members? Relatedly,
from an epistemological point of view, is group polarization best
understood as a kind of cognitive bias or rather in terms of
intellectual vice? This book compares four models that combine
potential answers to the metaphysical and epistemological
questions. The models considered are: group polarization as (i) a
collective bias; (ii) a summation of individual epistemic vices;
(iii) a summation of individual biases; and (iv) a collective
epistemic vice. Ultimately, the authors defend a collective vice
model of group polarization over the competing alternatives. The
Philosophy of Group Polarization will be of interest to students
and researchers working in epistemology, particularly those working
on social epistemology, collective epistemology, social ontology,
virtue epistemology, and distributed cognition. It will also be of
interest to those working on issues in political epistemology,
applied epistemology, and on topics at the intersection of
epistemology and ethics.
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