Collective Epistemology
Margaret P. Gilbert
University of California, Irvine
Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 95-107, 2004
Abstract:
This paper introduces the author's approach to everyday ascriptions of collective cognitive states as in such statements as we believe he is lying. Collective epistemology deals with these ascriptions attempting to understand them and the phenomena in question.
Keywords: Belief, Cognition, Collective Epistemology, Group, Method, Observation
Accepted Paper Series
Suggested Citation
Gilbert, Margaret P., Collective Epistemology. Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 95-107, 2004
. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1052281
