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Pluralism About Group Knowledge: A Reply to Jesper Kallestrup ... social-epistemology.com Jan 20, 2023 10 facts
claimGroups can function properly according to their structure and access a proof via inference, yet still lack knowledge of that proof in the first week.
claimThere are three philosophical options regarding group knowledge: (1) deny group beliefs and concede they lack knowledge (but have something similar), (2) deny belief has a phenomenological component and maintain groups have beliefs and knowledge, or (3) deny groups have beliefs but claim group knowledge does not require belief.
claimAvram Hiller and R. Wolfe Randall published a paper titled 'Pluralism About Group Knowledge: A Reply to Jesper Kallestrup' in 2023, which responds to Jesper Kallestrup's 2022 critique of their earlier work on group knowledge.
perspectiveAvram Hiller and R. Wolfe Randall deny that any single account of group knowledge (operative member responsibility, dynamic systems, or joint commitments) is the unique correct account or a necessary condition for group knowledge.
claimThe authors of 'Pluralism About Group Knowledge' use the analogy of a spring-loaded mousetrap to argue that just because a paradigm case (like human knowledge) requires a specific component (like belief), it does not mean all instances of that category (like group knowledge) must require that same component.
perspectiveA group possesses knowledge when it has an epistemic structure designed to possess and process that knowledge and is functioning properly according to that structure.
perspectiveAvram Hiller and R. Wolfe Randall argue that group knowledge does not locally supervene on the mental states of the group's members, meaning two groups with identical member mental states could differ in their knowledge based on their use of non-agential devices like computers, notebooks, or archives.
claimAvram Hiller and R. Wolfe Randall argue that if a computer or device collates information and draws an inference from basic information known by group members, that inference can count as group knowledge even if it is not accessible to the individual group members.
claimIf functionalism about knowledge is true, the fact that paradigmatic human knowledge entails belief does not necessitate that group knowledge entails belief.
perspectiveAvram Hiller and R. Wolfe Randall assert that a group's knowledge does not supervene on the mental or dispositional states of the individual members of that group.
Epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
referenceSøren Harnow Klausen authored the article 'Group Knowledge: A Real-world Approach', published in the journal Synthese in 2015, volume 192, issue 3.
Social Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Feb 26, 2001 1 fact
claimAlexander Bird explores the conditions under which a group can be said to possess knowledge in his 2014 chapter 'When Is There a Group That Knows?'
Social Epistemology - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science oecs.mit.edu Jul 24, 2024 1 fact
claimCases from team science and team mathematics provide evidence that may inform the dispute between summativists and anti-summativists regarding group knowledge.