I am grateful for the opportunity to have read Christoph Jäger and Nicholas Shackel’s interesting and creative “Testimonial Authority and Knowledge Transmission” (2025) and to have been invited to pen a reply. As the next time that a reader of a philosophical paper agrees with its author will no doubt be the first, it may be expected that I have some reservations regarding Jäger and Shackel’s paper. And, indeed, despite considerable admiration for it, I do. Jäger and Shackel argue ...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
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Epistemology has become an important site in the struggle for social justice. Pursuing knowledge is not an innocent process of discovering social facts using certain methodological procedures as…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Steve Fuller was Columbia University’s Kellett Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge from 1979 to 1981, from which he received an M.Phil. in History and Philosophy of Science. Charlie Standen…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
How should the pursuit of knowledge be organized, given that under normal circumstances knowledge is pursued by many human beings, each working on a more or less well-defined body of knowledge and each equipped with roughly the same imperfect cognitive capacities, albeit with varying degree of access to one another’s activities?| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective