Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 15 (5):55-62. 2026This reply to Aleksandra Vučković clarifies two aspects of my earlier critique of Pre-emptionism and develops a positive alternative account of epistemic authority. It argues that evidentialist approaches may adequately capture epistemic permissions but fail to explain the positive obligations we may bear toward epistemically superior agents. Drawing on systems theory, it proposes understanding epistemic authority within a broad
