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Full Idea
I propose 'communitarian epistemology' - claiming first that the term 'knowledge' marks a social status, and is dependent on the existence of communities, and second that this social status is typically granted to groups of people.
Gist of Idea
Communitarian Epistemology says 'knowledge' is a social status granted to groups of people
Source
Martin Kusch (Knowledge by Agreement [2002], Intro)
Book Ref
Kusch,Martin: 'Knowledge by Agreement' [OUP 2004], p.1
A Reaction
I find this very congenial, though Kusch goes a little far when he claims that knowledge is largely created by social groups. He allows that Robinson Crusoe might have knowledge of his island, but can't give a decent account of it.
| 10326 | Other men's opinions don't add to our knowledge - even when they are true [Locke] |
| 12417 | Mathematicians only accept their own proofs when everyone confims them [Hume] |
| 6599 | Knowing has no definable essence, but is a social right, found in the context of conversations [Rorty] |
| 8800 | If you would deny a truth if you know the full evidence, then knowledge has social aspects [Harman, by Sosa] |
| 3270 | Justifications come to an end when we want them to [Nagel] |
| 2772 | Coherentism moves us towards a more social, shared view of knowledge [Dancy,J] |
| 10323 | Communitarian Epistemology says 'knowledge' is a social status granted to groups of people [Kusch] |
| 10335 | Myths about lonely genius are based on epistemological individualism [Kusch] |
| 10348 | Private justification is justification to imagined other people [Kusch] |