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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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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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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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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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The epistemic bases of changes of opinion and choices: The joint effects of the need for cognitive closure, ascribed epistemic authority and quality of advice

European Journal of Social Psychology, 2021
Maxim Milyavsky, Pica Gennaro
exaly  

Epistemic Authority

Analysis, 2013
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The Epistemic Dimension Of Democratic Authority

The Modern Schoolman, 1997
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The epistemic evolution of market authority: Big data, blockchain and China’s neostatist challenge to neoliberalism

Competition and Change, 2021
Julian Gruin
exaly  

Does collaborative research have greater epistemic authority?

Scientometrics, 2004
Donald Deb Beaver
exaly