Philosophy › Section G · Epistemology › Topic G.5
Applied epistemology
Almost everything you know, you learned from other people. Applied epistemology asks when that trust is reasonable, how to handle disagreement and expertise, and how knowledge can be distorted, or wrongly withheld, along social lines.
In this topic
- Knowledge as a social achievement
- Testimony
- Experts and novices
- Peer disagreement
- Worked example: two peers disagree
- Group belief and echo chambers
- Standpoint epistemology
- Epistemic injustice
- Worked example: diagnosing the wrong
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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