Knowing Science, by Alexander Bird [Book Review]

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A review essay on Alexander Bird's book Knowing Science. The review examines Bird's reasons for thinking the human element in science may be entirely dispensable. It offers counterarguments highlighting problems with the idea that a group can know a proposition that none of its individual members know.

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Naturalized knowledge‐first and the epistemology of groups.Alexander Bird - forthcoming - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

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Knowledge and Action.John Hawthorne & Jason Stanley - 2008 - Journal of Philosophy 105 (10):571-590.
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