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An Ecology of Epistemic Authority

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2012

Lorraine Code
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Abstract

I offer an examination of trust relations in scientific inquiry as they seem to contrast with a lack of trust in an example of knowledge imposed from above by an unaccountable institutional power structure. On this basis I argue for a re-reading of John Hardwig's account of the place of trust in knowledge, and suggest that it translates less well than social epistemologists and others have assumed into a model for democratic epistemic practice.

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Episteme , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , February 2011 , pp. 24 - 37
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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