The Epistemology of Groups - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Epistemology of Groups write by Jennifer Lackey. This book was released on 2021-02. The Epistemology of Groups available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jennifer Lackey presents a ground-breaking exploration of the epistemology of groups, and its implications for group agency and responsibility. She argues that group belief and knowledge depend on what individual group members do or are capable of doing, while being subject to group-level normative requirements.
A Social Epistemology of Research Groups
A Social Epistemology of Research Groups - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Social Epistemology of Research Groups write by Susann Wagenknecht. This book was released on 2016-12-04. A Social Epistemology of Research Groups available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates how collaborative scientific practice yields scientific knowledge. At a time when most of today’s scientific knowledge is created in research groups, the author reconsiders the social character of science to address the question of whether collaboratively created knowledge should be considered as collective achievement, and if so, in which sense. Combining philosophical analysis with qualitative empirical inquiry, this book provides a comparative case study of mono- and interdisciplinary research groups, offering insight into the day-to-day practice of scientists. The book includes field observations and interviews with scientists to present an empirically-grounded perspective on much-debated questions concerning research groups’ division of labor, relations of epistemic dependence and trust.
The Philosophy of Group Polarization
The Philosophy of Group Polarization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Philosophy of Group Polarization write by Fernando Broncano-Berrocal. This book was released on 2021-02-15. The Philosophy of Group Polarization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Epistemology of Resistance
The Epistemology of Resistance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Epistemology of Resistance write by José Medina. This book was released on 2013. The Epistemology of Resistance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the epistemic side of racial and sexual oppression. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from listening to each other.
Essays in Collective Epistemology
Essays in Collective Epistemology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Essays in Collective Epistemology write by Jennifer Lackey. This book was released on 2014. Essays in Collective Epistemology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
