In ‘The Humility Heuristic Or: People Worth Trusting Admit to What They Don’t Know,’ Mattias Skipper defends a heuristic for identifying trustworthy people. In slogan form, the Humility Heuristic says that people worth trusting admit to what they don’t know…. Read More ›
Elizabeth Anderson
Can Novices be Taught to Choose Trustworthy Experts? Optimism for Reasoning—A Reply to Johnny Brennan, Martin Hinton
In his article “Can Novices Trust Themselves to Choose Trustworthy Experts? Reasons for (Reserved) Optimism” (2020), Johnny Brennan does two things. He illustrates the problem of the identification of experts, which has caused a great deal of head-scratching for scholars… Read More ›
Hunting the Expert: The Precarious Epistemic Position of a Novice, Jamie Carlin Watson
In Lewis Carroll’s poem, “The Hunting of the Snark,” ten adventurers set out to find an elusive, likely dangerous, and possibly mythical, creature called a “Snark.” They plot their course with a map that shows only ocean—no land—and their captain… Read More ›
Reply to John Christman’s comments, Elizabeth Anderson
Author Information: Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan, eandersn@umich.edu Anderson, Elizabeth. 2012.Reply to John Christman’s comments. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 1 (7): 15-16 The PDF of the article gives specific page numbers. Shortlink: http://wp.me/p1Bfg0-o1 Please refer to: Anderson, Elizabeth…. Read More ›
John Christman. Comments on Elizabeth Anderson, “Epistemic Justice as a Virtue of Social Institutions”
Author Information: John ChristmanPenn State University, jchristman@psu.edu Allwood, Carl. 2012. ” On the virtues of an empirically oriented culture concept and on the limitations of too general and abstract characterizations of understanding” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 1 (6):… Read More ›