Watching People Watching People: Culture, Prestige, and Epistemic Authority

IF 1.4 2区哲学 Q1 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Social Epistemology Pub Date : 2022-09-03 DOI:10.1080/02691728.2022.2114113

C. Lassiter

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Novices sometimes misidentify authorities and end up endorsing false beliefs as a result. In this paper, I suggest that this phenomenon is at least sometimes the result of culturally evolved mechanisms functioning in faulty epistemic contexts. I identify three background conditions which, when satisfied, enable expert-identifying mechanisms to function properly. When any one of them fails, that increases the likelihood of identifying a non-authority as authoritative. Consequently, novices can end up deferring to merely apparent authorities without having failed in any epistemic obligations.

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看人看人:文化、声望和认知权威

新手有时会错误地识别权威，并最终支持错误的信念。在本文中，我认为这种现象至少有时是文化进化机制在错误的认知背景下运作的结果。我确定了三个背景条件，当满足这些条件时，使专家识别机制能够正常运行。当他们中的任何一个失败时，这增加了将非权威者识别为权威者的可能性。因此，新手最终可能只服从表面上的权威，而没有任何认识上的义务。

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Social Epistemology Multiple-

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2.60

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17.60%

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期刊介绍： Social Epistemology provides a forum for philosophical and social scientific enquiry that incorporates the work of scholars from a variety of disciplines who share a concern with the production, assessment and validation of knowledge. The journal covers both empirical research into the origination and transmission of knowledge and normative considerations which arise as such research is implemented, serving as a guide for directing contemporary knowledge enterprises. Social Epistemology publishes "exchanges" which are the collective product of several contributors and take the form of critical syntheses, open peer commentaries interviews, applications, provocations, reviews and responses