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  • Hazlett, Allan (2015): The Social Value of Non-Deferential Belief. In: Australasian Journal of Philosophy 94 (1), S. 131-151. DOI: 10.1080/00048402.2015.1049625

    Abstract: We often prefer non-deferential belief to deferential belief. In the last twenty years, epistemology has seen a surge of sympathetic interest in testimony as a source of knowledge. We are urged to abandon epistemic individualism' and the ideal of the autonomous knower' in favour of social epistemology'. In this connection, you might think that a preference for non-deferential belief is a manifestation of vicious individualism, egotism, or egoism. I shall call this the selfishness challenge to preferring non-deferential belief. The aim of this paper is to meet the selfishness challenge by arguing that non-deferential belief is (pro tanto) socially valuable.

    Keywords: Condorcet, deference, democracy, Disziplin, epistemology, Gruppenverhalten / Joint Action, Philosophie, public reason, testimony, values AND social
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