Ebook: Social epistemology: essential readings

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.;A guide to social epistemology / Alvin I. Goldman -- Epistemic relativism defended / Paul Boghossian -- Rational authority and social power: towards a truly social epistemology / Miranda Fricker -- Testimony: acquiring knowledge from others / Jennifer Lackey -- "If that were true I would have heard about it by now" / Sanford C. Goldberg -- Experts: which ones should you trust? / Alvin I. Goldman -- Reasonable religious disagreements / Richard Feldman -- Reflection and disagreement / Adam Elga -- Peer disagreement and higher order evidence / Thomas Kelly -- Group knowledge and group rationality: a judgment aggregation perspective / Christian List -- Groups with minds of their own / Philip Pettit -- Thinking about error in the law / Larry Laudan -- Wikipistemology / Don Fallis -- Deliberating groups versus prediction markets (or Hayek's challenge to Habermas) / Cass R. Sunstein -- The communication structure of epistemic communities / Kevin J.S. Zollman.