Reading the Signs: From Dyadic to Triadic Views for Identifying Experts

C Lassiter - Social Epistemology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A naturalistic approach to expert-identification begins by asking,'how do novices
pick out putative experts?'Alvin Goldman and Elizabeth Anderson, representing a fairly …

Watching People Watching People: Culture, Prestige, and Epistemic Authority

C Lassiter - Social Epistemology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Novices sometimes misidentify authorities and end up endorsing false beliefs as a result. In
this paper, I suggest that this phenomenon is at least sometimes the result of culturally …