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Essays in Collective Epistemology (Hardcover)
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Essays in Collective Epistemology (Hardcover)
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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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