Goldman and Blanchard (2016)

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Blanchard, Thomas and Goldman, Alvin. (2016) Social Epistemology. In Zalta (Ed.) (2016). Retrieved from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-social/.

Title Social Epistemology
Resource Type collection article
Author(s) Alvin Goldman, Thomas Blanchard
Year 2016
URL https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-social/
Collection Zalta (Ed.) (2016)

Abstract

Until recently, epistemology - the study of knowledge and justified belief - was heavily individualistic in focus. The emphasis was on evaluating doxastic attitudes (beliefs and disbeliefs) of individuals in abstraction from their social environment. The result is a distorted picture of the human epistemic situation, which is largely shaped by social relationships and institutions. Social epistemology seeks to redress this imbalance by investigating the epistemic effects of social interactions and social systems.