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Global governance in the age of epistemic authority

International Theory, 2020
Today's global governance is qualitatively different from the past, according to Michael Zürn's penetrating analysis. With the rise of epistemic authority, reflexivity, service, and request have come to surpass command and control as key modes of global ...
Vincent Pouliot
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When Participants Do Not Agree: Member Checking and Challenges to Epistemic Authority in Participatory Research

Field Methods, 2019
Transactional validity, a common approach in participatory research, is attained when preliminary analyses of research results are discussed with research participants and their feedback is incorporated in the analysis.
M. Caretta, M. Pérez
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Demonstrative questions and epistemic authority management in medium-sitter interactions

, 2020
Although paranormal experiences have been broadly investigated, medium-sitter interactions have been studied much less. In this article, five excerpts from an Italian “public mediumship demonstration” are presented with the main aim to answer the ...
Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni, Alessandra Fermani   +2 more
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EPISTEMIC AUTHORITY, EPISTEMIC PREEMPTION, AND THE INTELLECTUAL VIRTUES

Episteme, 2016
ABSTRACTHow does the intellectually virtuous person respond to the beliefs of those whom they judge to be their epistemic superiors? Linda Zagzebski argues that we ought to take the beliefs of those we judge to be our epistemic authorities as a preemptive reason to believe the same.
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Epistemic Authority and Genuine Ethical Controversies

Bioethics, 2017
AbstractIn ‘Professional Hubris and its Consequences’, Eric Vogelstein claims that ‘that there are no good arguments in favor of professional organizations taking genuinely controversial positions on issues of professional ethics’. In this response, I defend two arguments in favour of organisations taking such positions: that their stance‐taking may ...
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Epistemic authority in context

2011
Words and concepts are useful tools; they play a function vital to human survival. Conceptual analysis tends to ignore this fact, examining concepts in utter isolation from actual social life. As a result, conceptual analysts may unwittingly offer a definition that, were it correct, would leave the concept unfit to do the work it has to do.
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EPISTEMIC AUTHORITY, PREEMPTIVE REASONS, AND UNDERSTANDING

Episteme, 2015
ABSTRACTOne of the key tenets of Linda Zagzebski's bookEpistemic Authority: A Theory of Trust, Authority, and Autonomy in Belief(2012) is the “Preemption Thesis for epistemic authority.” It says that, when an agent realizes that an epistemic authority believes that p, the epistemically rational response for her is to adopt the authority's belief and to
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Migrant children's epistemic authority in paediatric consultations

Communication & Medicine
Giving patients a voice in medical consultations and encouraging patient-centered communication are essential to improving the effectiveness and appropriateness of medical treatments. However, this is often difficult to achieve when patients are children, as paediatricians prefer to interact with parents and need parental consent.
Ceccoli, F., Baraldi, C.
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Epistemic Authority

Abstract Epistemic authority is authority we ascribe to people in virtue of their favorable relation to epistemic goods such as true belief, rational credence, knowledge, or understanding. Exactly how should we react when learning the views of an epistemic authority? This question has provoked much controversy in recent years.
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A Defense of Epistemic Authority

Res Philosophica, 2013
Philosophers generally assume that authority applies only to the political domain and do not even mention epistemic authority. Theorists recognize the tension between authority and autonomy, but the tradition of modern liberalism maintains that political authority can be derived from the authority of the self over the self.
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