Dietrich, Franz & Spiekermann, Kai: Social Epistemology

In The Handbook of Rationality. London: MIT Press. pp. 579-590. 2021Social epistemology studies knowledge in social contexts. Knowledge is ‘social’ when its holder communicates with or learns from others (Epistemology in groups), or when its holder is a group as a whole, literally or metaphorically (Epistemology of groups). Group knowledge can emerge explicitly, through aggregation procedures like voting, or implicitly, through institutions like deliberation or prediction markets. In the truth-t