Democracy has many attractive features. Among them is its tendency to track the truth, at
least under certain idealized assumptions. That basic result has been known since 1785 …

Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? Or are they just collections of
individual agents that give a misleading impression of unity? This question is important …

This chapter addresses three central questions concerning social epistemology: the “what”
question, the “why” question, and the “how” question. The rise of contemporary social …

How is medical knowledge made? New methods for research and clinical care have
reshaped the practices of medical knowledge production over the last forty years …

We show that board tenure exhibits an inverted U‐shaped relation with firm value and
accounting performance. The quality of corporate decisions, such as M&A, financial …

Groups are often said to bear responsibility for their actions, many of which have enormous
moral, legal, and social significance. When children were separated from their parents or …

What did democracy mean before liberalism? What are the consequences for our lives
today? Combining history with political theory, this book restores the core meaning of …

This book is about knowledge and its value. At its heart is a straightforward idea: we can
answer many interesting and difficult questions in epistemology by reflecting on the role of …

How can SE be characterized so that all of these topics fit under its umbrella? Why does
each topic qualify as epistemology and in what respects is it social? This essay begins by …

This essay raises new objections to the two dominant approaches to understanding the
justification of group beliefs—inflationary views, where groups are treated as entities that …