The epistemic life of groups : essays in the epistemology of collectives /
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016. |
| Description: | vi, 255 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mind Association occasional series Mind Association occasional series. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10829731 |
| Summary: | Social epistemology has been flourishing in recent years, expanding and making connections with political philosophy, virtue epistemology, philosophy of science, and feminist philosophy. The philosophy of the social world too is flourishing, with burgeoning work in the metaphysics of the social world, collective responsibility, group action, and group belief. The new philosophical vista now more clearly presenting itself is collective epistemology- - the epistemology of groups and institutions. Groups engage in epistemic activity all the time--whether it be the active collective inquiry of scientific research groups or crime detection units, or the evidential deliberations of tribunals and juries, or the informational efforts of the voting population in general--and yet in philosophy there is still relatively little epistemology of groups to help explore these epistemic practices and their various dimensions of social and philosophical significance. The aim of this book is to address this lack, by presenting original essays in the field of collective epistemology, exploring these regions of epistemic practice and their significance for Epistemology, Political Philosophy, Ethics, and the Philosophy of Science. |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 255 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-249) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198759645 0198759649 |
