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The formation, acquisition, mediation, transmission and dissemination of knowledge in complex communities of knowers.

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Friedrich Hayek

Born on this day in 1899

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…

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An experimental study of blind proficiency tests in forensic science

Check out the very important work being done by Roger Koppl and his associate Jim Cowan of the Institute for Forensic Science Administration (for an accessible overview of Roger and Jim’s work see Roger’s Forbes interview from a few years back). To get a sense just how vital their work is consider the stats cited…

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Robert Nozick

Today marks the death of Robert Nozick one of the most versatile philosophers of the last quarter of the 20th Century. The more I read Nozick, the more astonishing his talent seems to be. He writes with such subtle twists about so many issues from politics to epistemology to identity to consciousness, to ethics to…

adrian haddock, alvin goldman, duncan prichard, episteme, epistemology, Ernest Sosa, Frederick F. Schmitt, jennifer lackey, Jonathan Kvanvig, Lorraine Code, Michael Lynch, miranda fricker, paul faulkner, ram neta, sandy goldberg, social epistemology

Social Epistemology in Good Health

Here is a new title from OUP comprising new essays on social epistemology. Some of the best names in the business are here. This is a nice compliment to the New Studies and  Essential Readings volumes that came out earlier in 2010.

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Ryle and Oakeshott

At last here is the book in which my essay “Ryle and Oakeshott on the know-how/know-that distinction” appears, masterly edited by Corey Abel. A draft of the paper can be found here. Don’t get hung up by the use of the word “conservatism” in the collection’s title – Oakeshott’s conservatism bears no resemblance to those…

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Stigmergy group

My collaborator Marge Doyle and I have set up a LinkedIn group for the many academic disciplines that now have an interest in stigmergy. Go to LinkedIn and search LinkedIn groups for “stigmergy.”