Social epistemology : essential readings /
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Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 357 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11245700 |
Other authors / contributors: | Goldman, Alvin I., 1938- Whitcomb, Dennis. |
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ISBN: | 9780199715206 0199715203 9781283009829 128300982X 9780195334616 0195334612 9780195334531 0195334531 1283098326 9781283098328 9786613009821 6613009822 9786613098320 6613098329 |
Digital file characteristics: | data file |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record. |
Summary: | What if anything justifies us in believing the testimony of others? How should we react to disagreement between ourselves and our peers, and to disagreement among the experts when we ourselves are novices? Can beliefs be held by groups of people in addition to the people composing those groups? And if so, how should groups go about forming their beliefs? How should we design social systems, such as legal juries and scientific research-sharing schemes, to promote knowledge among the people who engage in them? When different groups of people judge different beliefs to be justified, how can we te. |
Other form: | Print version: Social epistemology. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011 9780195334616 |
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