Essays in Collective Epistemology

Book Overview

We often talk about groups believing, knowing, and testifying. For instance, we ask whether the Bush Administration had good reasons for believing that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, or whether BP knew that its equipment was faulty before the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Epistemic claims of this sort often have enormously significant consequences, given the ways they bear on the moral and legal responsibilities of collective entities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019966580X
• ISBN13: 9780199665808
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"