Testimony and Value in the Theory of Knowledge

Brasi, Leandro De

doi:10.15446/ideasyvalores.v64n159.40970

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“…11 Given our social and cooperative nature, one would expect some such structure to be in place in order to help us overcome the epistemic and cognitive limitations we have (e.g. De Brasi, 2015b;Kitcher, 2011). 12 So, in the case of experts (and other epistemic authorities), they are there to be exploited to overcome our ignorance.…”

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Citizenry incompetence and the epistemic structure of society

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2018

Filosofia Unisinos

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The epistemic structure of society, with its division of epistemic and cognitive labour, can help us deal with the citizenry incompetence threat that many contemporary conceptions of democracy suffer as long as a certain intellectual character is possessed by the citizens.A estrutura epistêmica da sociedade, com sua divisão do trabalho epistêmico e cognitivo, pode nos ajudar a lidar com a ameaça da incompetência dos cidadãos que muitas concepções contemporâneas de democracia sofrem, desde que um certo caráter intelectual seja possuído pelos cidadãos.Palavras-chave: testemunho de especialistas, deliberação coletiva, virtude intelectual, democracia.

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Citizenry incompetence and the epistemic structure of society

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“…Potter and Alcoff, 1993;Schmitt, 1994), traditional individualist positions seem doomed. Indeed, this anti-individualist ap roach, by emphasizing the cooperative and intera ive a ects of knowing, cor ects the unfortunate individualist simplifications of much cur ent mainstream epistemology, which are unsuita le for theorizing about knowers who are members of social communities and so seem to be stop ing us from making progress (Fricker, 2010;Gol berg, 2010;De Brasi, 2015b).…”

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“…29 For other advantages, see e.g. De Brasi (forthcoming), that shows how it allows epistemic intuitions to play a legitimate (but not fundamental) role in theorizing (compare a natural kind approach), but also notice that this property cluster approach explains why the Gettier literature is a doomed project and the covert social nature of knowledge explains why that research project has run for so long;and De Brasi (2015b), that shows how it can accommodate and explain the various value desiderata related to knowledge, as well as the factivity and transmissibility of knowledge. criteria of adequacy, or even that society is the final arbiter about knowledge.…”

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Knowledge as a social kind

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2017

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This paper motivates an account of knowledge as a social kind, fo lowing a cue by Edward Craig, which captures two major insights behind social and feminist epistemologies, in particular our epistemic interdependence concerning knowledge and the role of social re ulative practices in understanding knowledge. This view, which fa ls within a truly social re ulative epistemology (i.e. an epistemology which aims to uide our epistemic conduct and which renders our epistemic reliance on others ubiquitous), does not succumb to epistemic relativism and can accommodate other "traditional" tenets that render it anyway "real epistemology" (given Alvin Goldman's chara erization).The paper proceeds as fo lows. The first section, "Varieties of epistemology" , introduces the two insights related to social and feminist epistemologies and motivates an anti-individualist approach to epistemology and the re ulative project in epistemology. The second section, "Testimonial pra ice and knowledge" , presents the two key components of the Craigian framework and develops a novel pra ical explication of the concept of knowledge related to the testimonial pra ice from which a particular account of knowledge as a social kind is derived. The third section, "Some advantages of the account" , concludes by pointing out some advantages of the resulting account of knowledge. ABSTRACTThis paper motivates an account of knowledge as a social kind, following a cue by Edward Craig, which captures two major insights behind social and feminist epistemologies, in particular our epistemic interdependence concerning knowledge and the role of social regulative practices in understanding knowledge.Keywords: epistemic anti-individualism, regulative epistemology, practical explication, testimony. RESUMOEste artigo motiva um relato do conhecimento como um tipo social, seguindo uma sugestão de Edward Craig, que capta dois grandes pontos de vista das epistemologias sociais e feministas, em particular a nossa interdependência epistêmica em relação ao conhecimento e o papel das práticas reguladoras sociais na compreensão do conhecimento.Palavras-chave: anti-individualismo epistemológico, epistemologia reguladora, explicação prática, testemunho.

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