"Until recently, epistemology—the study of knowledge and justified belief—was heavily individualistic in focus. The emphasis was on evaluating doxastic attitudes (beliefs and disbeliefs) of individuals in abstraction from their social environment. The result is a distorted picture of the human epistemic situation, which is largely shaped by social relationships and institutions. Social epistemology seeks to redress this imbalance by investigating the epistemic effects of social interactions and social systems" 

Alvin Goldman and Thomas Blanchard (2016),
"Social Epistemology", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Steering Committee:
Monika Betzler (Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich)
Cristina Bicchieri (University of Pennsylvania)
David Christensen (Brown University)
​David Coady (University of Tasmania)
Kristie Dotson (Michigan State University)
Kenny Easwaran (Texas A&M University)
David Enoch (Hebrew University)
​Don Fallis (Northeastern University)
​Paul Faulkner (University of Sheffield)
Elizabeth Fricker (Oxford University/Notre Dame)
Miranda Fricker (City University of New York)
Axel Gelfert (TU Berlin)
Sandy Goldberg (Northwestern University)
Alvin Goldman (Rutgers University)
Peter Graham (University of California at Riverside)
​Thomas Grundmann (University of Cologne)
Katherine Hawley (University of St Andrews)
David Henderson (University of Nebraska)
Klemens Kappel (University of Copenhagen)
​Christoph Kelp (University of Glasgow)
Melissa Koenig (University of Minnesota)
Quill R Kukla (Georgetown University)
Martin Kusch (University of Vienna)
Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University)
Helene Landemore (Yale University)
Michael Lynch (University of Connecticut)
Jack Lyons (University of Glasgow)
Ishani Maitra (University of Michigan)
Gloria Origgi (EHESS - CNRS, Paris)
Nikolaj Pederson (Yonsei University)
Andrew Peet (University of Oslo)
Duncan Pritchard (University of Edinburgh/UC Irvine)
Fred Schmitt (Indiana University)
Mona Simion (University of Glasgow)
​Judith Simon (University of Hamburg)
Daniel Singer (University of Pennsylvania)
Paulina Sliwa (Cambridge University)
Miriam Solomon (Temple University)
Dan Sperber (Institut Jean Nicod/Central European University)
Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University)
Mike Titelbaum (University of Wisconsin)


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The Social Epistemology Network was brought into existence by some of the leading researchers in the field. It provides a platform for cooperation and exchange among researchers from all over the world, interested in social aspects of cognition, broadly construed, including: testimony, trust, disagreement, epistemic norms, social norms, the epistemology of speech acts, epistemic justice, social epistemology and the internet (e.g. epistemology of social networks, epistemology of search, epistemology of Wikipedia; epistemological dimensions of the human-computer interface, etc.), social epistemology of journalism, the epistemology of groups, social epistemology of science, political epistemology/social epistemology and democracy, and social epistemology and collective action and intentionality.
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