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Title: Epistemic advantage on the margin: A network standpoint Epistemology
Abstract I use network models to simulate social learning situations in which the dominant group ignores or devalues testimony from the marginalized group. I find that the marginalized group ends up with several epistemic advantages due to testimonial ignoration and devaluation. The results provide one possible explanation for a key claim of standpoint epistemology, the inversion thesis, by casting it as a consequence of another key claim of the theory, the unidirectional failure of testimonial reciprocity. Moreover, the results complicate the understanding and application of previously discovered network epistemology effects, notably the Zollman effect (Zollman, 2007, 2010).  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1922424
PAR ID:
10420694
Author(s) / Creator(s):
 
Publisher / Repository:
Wiley-Blackwell
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
Volume:
106
Issue:
3
ISSN:
0031-8205
Page Range / eLocation ID:
p. 755-777
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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