<p>This project explores the intersection of two lively debates in epistemology that have not yet engaged with each other: accounts of group belief in collective epistemology and work the nature of epistemic trust. As social epistemology has come to occupy a central role in epistemology over the past several decades, we’ve seen the amount of work on both collective belief and epistemic trust explode. However, despite the literature in both fields booming, we haven’t yet seen any sustained examination of how these currently separate literatures might be intersected and interconnected. This paper begins such an examination. Given the many accounts of <i>both</i> collective belief <i>and</i> epistemic trust, these different literatures can provide different axes along which to vary models of collective trust. Explicating and exploring these different models may serve as options ripe for more examination by social epistemologists.</p>

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Modelling Collective Epistemic Trust

  • Benjamin W. McCraw

摘要

This project explores the intersection of two lively debates in epistemology that have not yet engaged with each other: accounts of group belief in collective epistemology and work the nature of epistemic trust. As social epistemology has come to occupy a central role in epistemology over the past several decades, we’ve seen the amount of work on both collective belief and epistemic trust explode. However, despite the literature in both fields booming, we haven’t yet seen any sustained examination of how these currently separate literatures might be intersected and interconnected. This paper begins such an examination. Given the many accounts of both collective belief and epistemic trust, these different literatures can provide different axes along which to vary models of collective trust. Explicating and exploring these different models may serve as options ripe for more examination by social epistemologists.