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Christian List, cognitive systems, collaboration, collective intentionality, collective knowledge, group agency, Philip Pettit, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, social epistemology, social facts, social identity, social networking, social ontology, social psychology

Group agency

Here’s a recent co-authored book from Christian List. CL is probably the leading theorist in this area and one of the best philosophers around who, not so long ago, was not affiliated with a philosophy department (I see that he now has a joint appointment with the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method). How…

alvin goldman, Christian List, Christopher Thompson, Don Fallis, episteme, epistemology, Frederick F. Schmitt, Igor Douven, Jack Lyons, Jason Stanley, jennifer lackey, Jeremy Fantl, Jessica Brown, Jonathan Schaffer, Jonathan Weinberg, Matthew McGrath, Michael Weisberg, Mikkel Gerken, philosophy, sandy goldberg, social epistemology

EPISTEME: A Move and Reincarnation

EPISTEME announces an impending move and transformation. With the first issue of 2012 we begin publication with Cambridge University Press and expand our scope from social epistemology specifically to all of epistemology.  Our new title will be:  EPISTEME, A Journal of Individual and Social Epistemology. Since 2004 EPISTEME has published with Edinburgh University Press. With Cambridge…

Christian List, disagreement, distributed knowledge, episteme, epistemology, formal epistemology, game theory, Horacio Arló-Costa, Judgment Aggregation, multi-agent modeling, network theory, networks, social connectionism, social networking, testimony

EPISTEME 2011

The 2011 EPISTEME conference will focus on the intersection of formal and social epistemology. The use of formal models in social epistemology is not a new development. Many philosophers have modeled concepts and ideas in social epistemology by using formal tools of various types (e.g., game theory, Bayesian decision theory, the theory of judgment aggregation,…

alvin goldman, Christian List, Franz Dietrich, jennifer lackey, melissa koenig, michael strevens, miranda fricker, social cognition, social epistemology

New Studies in Social Epistemology

Here is a collection from OUP with a section devoted to SE (how times have changed) with some top-notch names anchored of course by Alvin Goldman. Special Theme: Social Epistemology Guest Editor: Alvin Goldman 8: Alvin Goldman: Systems-Oriented Social Epistemology 9: Franz Dietrich & Christian List: The Aggregation of Propositional Attitudes: Towards a General Theory…

adam smith, aggregation, ants, artificial intelligence, bees, Bernard de Mandeville, Christian List, cognitive modeling, cognitive systems, collaboration, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, emergence, evolutionary biology, financial markets turmoil, hayek, Mass Collaboration, neurobiology, particle swarm optimization, philosophy of social science, rationality, robotics, robots, spontanous orders, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm intelligence, The Fable of The Bees, think markets

Fable of the Bees

Now it is becoming clear that group decisions are also extremely valuable for the success of social animals, such as ants, bees, birds and dolphins. And those animals may have a thing or two to teach people about collective decision-making. There’s an article in the Economist entitled “Decisions, decisions: What people can learn from how social…

alvin goldman, Christian List, episteme, epistemology, social epistemology, The Philosopher's Magazine

EPISTEME editors interviewed

The Philosophers Magazine has an article entitled “The Spotlight Falls on Bright Young Thing,” a profile of EPISTEME Associate Editor Christian List (Issue 42, pp. 7-8). In the next issue of TPM EPISTEME editor Alvin Goldman will be profiled (pp. 88-93). Social epistemology in an analytic vein is finally getting the wider philosophical exposure it deserves.