The epistemic life of groups : essays in the epistemology of collectives

• Tác giả: Michael Brady, Miranda Fricker
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 0198759649
• ISBN-13: 978-0198759645
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 121 Epistemology (Theory of knowledge)
• Mô tả vật lý: vi, 255 pages ; , 25 c
• Bộ sưu tập: Tâm lý, Logic
• ID: 280119
• Chủ đề: 1. 71.40 social processes: general; 2. Erkenntnistheorie; 3. Knowledge, Sociology of; 4. Knowledge, Sociology of; 5. Kollektiv; 6. Social epistemology; 7. Social epistemology

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-249) and index

Tóm tắt

Groups engage in epistemic activity all the time, from the collective inquiry of scientific researchers to the deliberations of juries. Yet there is still relatively little philosophical work on collective epistemology. Eleven new essays explore this practice and its relation to epistemology, political philosophy, ethics, and philosophy of science