Review
"Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty." --Choice
"It will surely contribute to the ongoing debates in collective epistemology and will serve as an important resource for students and scholars alike." --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online
Book Description
A team of leading experts in the field present new, cutting edge theories, insights, and approaches in collective epistemology.
From the Publisher
Jennifer Lackey is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. Her recent research focuses on the epistemology of groups, the epistemology of testimony, norms of assertion, and the epistemic significance of disagreement. She has co-edited (with Ernest Sosa) The Epistemology of Testimony (OUP, 2006) and (with David Christensen) The Epistemology of Disagreement: New Essays (OUP, 2013) and is the author of Learning from Words: Testimony as a Source of Knowledge (OUP, 2008). She is the recipient of a Mellon Foundation Grant for a Sawyer Seminar (2014), the Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (2007), and a Summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2002). She is also winner of the Young Epistemologist Prize (2005).
About the Author
Jennifer Lackey is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. Her recent research focuses on the epistemology of groups, the epistemology of testimony, norms of assertion, and the epistemic significance of disagreement. She has co-edited (with Ernest Sosa) The Epistemology of Testimony (OUP, 2006) and (with David Christensen) The Epistemology of Disagreement: New Essays (OUP, 2013) and is the author of Learning from Words: Testimony as a Source of Knowledge (OUP, 2008). She is the recipient of a Mellon Foundation Grant for a Sawyer Seminar (2014), the Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (2007), and a Summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2002). She is also winner of the Young Epistemologist Prize (2005).