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Socially Naturalized Norms of Epistemic Rationality: Aggregation and Deliberation
Author(s) -
Wylie Alison
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the southern journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2041-6962
pISSN - 0038-4283
DOI - 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2006.tb00029.x
Subject(s) - deliberation , externalism , epistemology , cites , rationality , internalism and externalism , sociology , social epistemology , psychology , philosophy , political science , law , ecology , politics , biology
In response to those who see rational deliberation as a source of epistemic norms and a model for well‐functioning scientific inquiry, Solomon cites evidence that aggregative techniques often yield better results; deliberative processes are vulnerable to biasing mechanisms that impoverish the epistemic resources on which group judgments are based. I argue that aggregative techniques are similarly vulnerable and illustrate this in terms of the impact of gender schemas on both individual and collective judgment. A consistently externalist and socially naturalized approach calls for symmetrical treatment of these strategies for capitalizing on what groups know.