Book Review contributions are single-authored or multiple-authored reviews of recent books in the area of social epistemology.| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
In a recent special issue of Social Epistemology (2024, 38:3), a diverse set of authors discuss epistemic autonomy,[1] its place as a virtue, and related uses and abuses of epistemic agency. In this response essay, I will develop a perspective on epistemic autonomy the importance of which is, I think, underlined by these essays taken as a set. The upshot of the essay being this. There is a need for a virtue term that pertains to developing and maintaining a perspective that is epistemically i...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Lisa Herzog’s wonderful book Citizen Knowledge: Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy (Herzog 2023), examines how democratic market societies should deal with the tension that can…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
