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  2. Feb 26, 2001 · Social epistemology is concerned with how people can best pursue the truth with the help of, or sometimes in the face of, other people or relevant social practices and institutions. It is also concerned with the pursuit of truth by groups, or collective agents.

  3. Social epistemology refers to a broad set of approaches that can be taken in epistemology (the study of knowledge) that construes human knowledge as a collective achievement. Another way of characterizing social epistemology is as the evaluation of the social dimensions of knowledge or information. [1]

  4. Feb 26, 2001 · The result is a distorted picture of the human epistemic situation, which is largely shaped by social relationships and institutions. Social epistemology seeks to redress this imbalance by investigating the epistemic effects of social interactions and social systems.

  5. Feb 26, 2001 · What is Social Epistemology? 2. Giving Shape to the Field of Social Epistemology. 3. Central Topics in Social Epistemology. 3.1 Testimony. 3.2 Peer Disagreement. 3.3 The Epistemology of Collective Agents. 3.4. Judgment Aggregation. 3.5 Group Justification. 3.6 Identifying Experts: A Case of Applied Social Epistemology. 4.

  6. Social epistemology (SE) is the study of how social relationships and interactions affect the epistemic properties of individuals and groups. Jennifer Lackey during a lecture at Amherst College in 2010.

  7. Social epistemology is the philosophical study of the relevance of communities to knowledge. Social epistemology can be done descriptively or normatively. It is part of the descriptive project, for instance, to clarify whether a social isolate (like Robinson Crusoe) could have knowledge.

  8. Oct 25, 2012 · In what sense is social epistemology social? A three-part answer is offered. First, social epistemology continues to reflect on optimal methods for individual belief formation but specifically considers evidential inputs from other people— their opinions, assertions, and arguments (known as interpersonal social epistemology).

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