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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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On the Epistemic Authority of Courts

Episteme, 2008
ABSTRACTThis paper uses Carl Ginet's concept of “disinterested justification” to identify the boundaries of the epistemic authority of courts. It claims that courts exercise this authority only in the “interest-free” zone, in which their determinations of disputed facts’ probabilities can be made and justified on epistemic grounds alone.
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Perception of epistemic authorities by children and adolescents

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1990
The study investigated children's and adolescents' perceptions of epistemic authorities in various knowledge domains. Children and adolescents from 4th, 8th, and 12th grades were asked to evaluate their father, mother, teacher, and friends as epistemic authorities in nine areas of knowledge content. In general, the results indicated that the perception
A, Raviv, D, Bar-Tal, A, Raviv, D, Peleg
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An Ecology of Epistemic Authority

Episteme, 2011
I offer an examination of trust relations in scientific inquiry as they seem to contrast with a lack of trust in an example of knowledge imposed from above by an unaccountable institutional power structure. On this basis I argue for a re-reading of John Hardwig's account of the place of trust in knowledge, and suggest that it translates less well than ...
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The Epistemic Authority of Expertise

PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1994
All of us defer to the authority of experts. Living in a world of increasing specialization we find that deferral to experts is integral to even the most mundane habits of our ordinary life. I regularly complain about mistakes in meteorologist's forecasts, yet I still carry an ...
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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 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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God and Epistemic Authority.

2015
The article presents the author's views on God and epistemic authority. He explores human beings' fabrication of gods for various reasons which include to reflect their imperfect traits. God's epistemic authority is discussed as well as how it can benefit an epistemiology of people's understanding of God.
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The Social Fabric of Understanding: Equilibrium, Authority, and Epistemic Empathy

SynthÈse, 2021
Federica Isabella Malfatti, Christoph Jäger   +1 more
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The Epistemic Authority of Citizens

2017
The chapter aims to establish that, given the conditions of deliberative democracy and the institutions of modern democracies, citizens can reasonably regard each other as equal epistemic authorities on justice, that is, as prima facie equally reliable judges of the rightness of political decisions according to a procedure-independent criterion of ...
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