The Division of Epistemic Labor

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1750-0117|8|1|112-125

ISSN: 1742-3600

Source: Episteme, Vol.8, Iss.1, 2011-02, pp. : 112-125

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Abstract

In this paper I formulate the thesis of the Division of Epistemic Labor as a thesis of epistemic dependence, illustrate several ways in which individual subjects are epistemically dependent on one or more of the members of their community in the process of knowledge acquisition, and draw conclusions about the cognitively distributed nature of some knowledge acquisition.