Experts, semantic and epistemic

Noûs 43 (4):581-598 (2009)
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Abstract

In this paper I argue that the tendency to defer in matters semantic is rationalized by our reliance on the say-so of others for much of what we know about the world. The result, I contend, is a new and distinctly epistemic source of support for the doctrine of attitude anti-individualism.

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