TY - JOUR
T1 - Epistemic risk and community policing:
AU - Mathiesen, Kay
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - In his paper " The Social Diffusion of Warrant and Rationality," Sanford Goldberg argues that reiying on testimony makes the warrant for our beliefs " socially diffuse" and that this diminishes our capacity to rationally police our beliefs. Thus, according to Goldberg, rationality itself is socially diffuse. I argue that while testimonial warrant may be socially diffuse (because it depends on the warrants of other epistemic agents) this feature has no special link to our capacity to rationally police our beliefs. Nevertheless, I endorse Goldberg's claim about rationality and I propose that a Foley-style account of rationality might help to better articulate Goldberg's proposal.
AB - In his paper " The Social Diffusion of Warrant and Rationality," Sanford Goldberg argues that reiying on testimony makes the warrant for our beliefs " socially diffuse" and that this diminishes our capacity to rationally police our beliefs. Thus, according to Goldberg, rationality itself is socially diffuse. I argue that while testimonial warrant may be socially diffuse (because it depends on the warrants of other epistemic agents) this feature has no special link to our capacity to rationally police our beliefs. Nevertheless, I endorse Goldberg's claim about rationality and I propose that a Foley-style account of rationality might help to better articulate Goldberg's proposal.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2006.tb00035.x
DO - 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2006.tb00035.x
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:60949416914
SN - 0038-4283
VL - 44
SP - 139
EP - 150
JO - Southern Journal of Philosophy
JF - Southern Journal of Philosophy
IS - SUPPL
ER -