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Reliable group belief

Synthese, ISSN: 1573-0964, Vol: 198, Issue: S23, Page: 5653-5677
2021
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  • Citations
    4
    • Citation Indexes
      4
  • Captures
    2
  • Social Media
    13
    • Shares, Likes & Comments
      13
      • Facebook
        13

Article Description

Many now countenance the idea that certain groups can have beliefs, or at least belief-like states. If groups can have beliefs like these, the question of whether such beliefs are justified immediately arises. Recently, Goldman (in: Lackey (ed) Essays in collective epistemology, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014) has considered what a reliability-based account of justified group belief might look like. In this paper I consider his account and find it wanting, and so propose a modified reliability-based account of justified group belief. Lackey (Philos Rev 125(3):341–396, 2016) has also criticized Goldman’s proposal, but for very different reasons than I do. Some of her objections, however, can be lodged against the modified account that I propose here. I also respond to these objections. Finally, I note how some formal and experimental work is relevant to those who are attracted to the kind of reliability-based account of justified group belief I develop here.

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