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Full Idea
An advantage of coherentism is that it directs attention away from the individual's struggle to achieve knowledge (the classical conception), and points to knowledge as a social phenomenon, shared, and increased by means of sharing.
Gist of Idea
Coherentism moves us towards a more social, shared view of knowledge
Source
Jonathan Dancy (Intro to Contemporary Epistemology [1985], 8.3)
Book Ref
Dancy,Jonathan: 'Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology' [Blackwell 1985], p.119
A Reaction
This is exactly the view which I now embrace. Internal coherence is the basis, but that spills out into the community, and into books, and into the relativity of social acceptance.
| 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] |