ISBN:
9783110322583
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3110322587
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3868381066
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9783868381061
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3110322234
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9783110322231
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (241 pages)
Series Statement:
Epistemische Studien Bd. 20
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Weber, Marcel Collective Epistemology
DDC:
306.42
Keywords:
Knowledge, Theory of
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Electronic books Electronic books
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Konferenzschrift 2008
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Konferenzschrift 2008
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Konferenzschrift 2008
Abstract:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal ..." This collection of essays addresses a philosophical problem raised by the first clause of these famous words. Does each signatory of the Declaration of Independence hold these truths individually, do they share some kind of a common attitude, or is there a single subject over and above the heads of its individual members that possesses a belief?"Collective Epistemology" is a name for the view that cognitive attitudes can be attributed to groups in a non-summative sense. The aim of this volume is to examine this claim, a
Abstract:
Introduction DANIEL SIRTES, HANS BERNHARD SCHMID, AND MARCEL WEBER; Groups as Rational Sources DEBORAH TOLLEFSEN; Can Groups Be Epistemic Agents? KAY MATHIESEN; Collective Epistemic Agency: Virtue and the Spice of Vice ANITA KONZELMANN ZIV; PART II; An Account of Group Knowledge RAIMO TUOMELA; On Dialectical Justification of Group Beliefs RAUL HAKLI; PART III; Probabilistic Proofs and the Collective Epistemic Goals of Mathematicians DON FALLIS; Collective Epistemology: The Intersection of Group Membership and Expertise ROBERT EVANS.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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