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Epistemic Authority and Genuine Ethical Controversies
Bioethics, 2017AbstractIn ‘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
2011Words 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, 2015ABSTRACTOne 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 & MedicineGiving 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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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, 2013Philosophers 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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An Ecology of Epistemic Authority
Episteme, 2011I 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, 1994All 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 and Legal Interpretation
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017The relations between epistemic authority and legal interpretation have been widely neglected in contemporary legal theory. In this paper I’ll lay out the grounds for the discussion about the sociological and philosophical conceptions of power and authority in order to access their relevance for the theory of legal interpretation.
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