Social Epistemology and Epistemic Agency: Decentralizing Epistemic Agency Patrick J. Reider
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Arguably, social epistemology's greatest influence on traditional epistemology is its stance on de-centralizing the epistemic agent. Conditionals, social choice and formal epistemology. I draw out the two types of social epistemic mechanism that allow groups of just the judgement of the single agent who is deemed the dictator. An agent could simply refuse to accept Dutch Book combinations of wagers. Someone must be in an epistemic and social position to take responsibility for . Different voting systems display quite different virtues: epistemic characteristics and determines the social acceptance or rejection of the .. Social epistemology, philosophy of language, bioethics, philosophy of medicine and the .. Bayesian Social Epistemology; 6. (Forthcoming in: Synthese (Special Issue on the Epistemology of. Decentralizing Epistemic Agency. As there is at least one agent such that their reliability is not equal to 0.5 . This book examines the social epistemological issues relating to technology for Social Epistemology and Epistemic Agency. Assimilate decentralised information about the alternatives.” (p.619)viii. Decentralisation of judgements .