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epistemic communities
Also known as: epistemic community
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The Role of Epistemic Communities and Expert Testimonies in ... academia.edu 9 facts
claimEpistemic communities are defined as small groups of individuals who excel in a particular field of interest and possess a higher capacity for achieving knowledge in their domain compared to the average person.
claimEpistemic communities enhance knowledge production and decision-making across various complex domains.
claimShared beliefs within epistemic communities shape normative, causal, and validity frameworks for knowledge.
claimPhilosophers categorize groups of excellent knowers as 'epistemic communities' and classify the knowledge they provide as 'expert testimonies'.
claimEpistemic communities are dynamic entities that produce and act with knowledge, shape the identities of knowledge producers, and share common beliefs and practices directed toward solving specific problems in their fields.
claimEpistemic communities are influential and may act as a driving force for changes in society and on the world stage.
claimAn epistemic community is defined as a cooperative group of different participants aimed at solving actual problems to improve well-being.
claimEpistemic communities contribute to the implementation of ethics in practice areas through mutual cooperation between ethical experts and relevant experts from the specific problem area.
claimEpistemic communities play an integral role in the pursuit of state interests and influence the formulation of government state policies.
Social Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Aug 28, 2019 5 facts
referenceCailin O’Connor and Justin Bruner published 'Dynamics and Diversity in Epistemic Communities' in Erkenntnis in 2019, modeling how epistemic communities function.
claimFormal social epistemology stems largely from the philosophy of science and employs modeling methods to understand the workings of epistemic communities.
claimDu Bois (1898) raised the question of whether the best motive for an epistemic community is credit-seeking, pure truth-seeking, or a combination of both.
claimCognitive diversity is suggested to benefit epistemic communities because groups with members who start with different assumptions, use different methodologies, or reason in different ways may be more likely to discover truth.
referenceKevin J. S. Zollman published 'The Communication Structure of Epistemic Communities' in Philosophy of Science in 2007.
Social Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Feb 26, 2001 2 facts
claimWeisberg and Muldoon argue that epistemic communities benefit from cognitive diversity, specifically finding that a combination of 'followers' (who work on problems similar to others) and 'mavericks' (who prefer to explore new terrain) outperforms groups consisting of only one type.
claimHolman and Bruner (2017) demonstrate that industry can shape the output of an epistemic community through 'industrial selection,' which involves funding only agents whose methods bias them toward preferred findings.
Social epistemology - Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy rep.routledge.com 2 facts
claimSocial epistemologists have recently begun studying ignorance, with feminist epistemologists and critical race theorists conducting pioneering work on how systemic features of epistemic communities preserve ignorance regarding inconvenient truths.
perspectiveFeminist epistemologists and critical race theorists, such as Mills (2007) and Tuana (2006), argue that systemic features of epistemic communities were instrumental in the widespread preservation of ignorance about a vast array of inconvenient truths.
Virtue Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 9, 1999 2 facts
claimThe approaches proposed by Davidson, Kelly, and Washington harmonize with the embedded, scaffolded, and extended virtue model and Kvanvig's (1992) emphasis on the role of the epistemic community.
claimResearch on epistemic justice and injustice, as well as explorations of embedded, scaffolded, and extended intellectual character, are informed by attention to the cognitive agent's epistemic community, as noted in works by Fricker (2007), Sherman (2016), Alfano (2013b), and Alfano & Skorburg (2017, 2018).
Epistemology of Testimony | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 1 fact
claimSome epistemologists view testimony as a mechanism for spreading knowledge rather than creating it, contrasting it with perception, which is viewed as a source of knowledge for the epistemic community as a whole.
Virtue Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 9, 1999 1 fact
claimVirtue Epistemology (VE) is developing in four new directions: virtues in epistemic communities, profiles of specific virtues and vices, philosophizing about epistemic statuses other than knowledge, and the relationship between intellectual virtues and epistemic emotions.
David Ludwig (Wageningen University and Research): Publications ... philpeople.org 1 fact
claimTransdisciplinary research integrates knowledge from diverse epistemic communities to address social-environmental challenges such as biodiversity loss, climate crises, food insecurity, and public health.