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Why It's OK Not to Think for Yourself [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Philosophy)
  • Author:  Matheson, Jonathan
  • Author:  Matheson, Jonathan
  • ISBN-10:  1032438258
  • ISBN-10:  1032438258
  • ISBN-13:  9781032438252
  • ISBN-13:  9781032438252
  • Publisher:  Routledge
  • Publisher:  Routledge
  • Pages:  252
  • Pages:  252
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • SKU:  1032438258-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  1032438258-11-MPOD
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Chapter 1 Introduction

Keeping your House in Order

What is Thinking for Yourself?

Clarifying the Central Conclusion

Looking Ahead

Chapter 2 Believing (Just) Because Others Believe: Epistemic Surrogates

From Individual to Social Epistemology

Believing the Experts & Epistemic Surrogacy

The Wisdom of Crowds

The Upshot

Chapter 3 The Argument from Expertise

Motivating the Argument

Applying the Argument

An Initial Worry: Identifying the Experts

The Upshot

Chapter 4 The Argument from Evidential Swamping

Motivating the Argument

Applying the Argument

The Upshot

Chapter 5 The Autonomy Objection

Motivating the Objection

The Myth of Intellectual Individualism

Autonomy as Intellectual Freedom

Autonomy as Intellectual Virtue

Wrap-Up

Chapter 6 The Free-Rider Objection

Motivating the Objection

The Cognitive Division of Labor

Epistemic Trespassing

The Wisdom of Crowds Again

Wrap-Up

Chapter 7 The Socratic Objection

Motivating the Objection

Normative Questions

No Relevant Experts

The Importance of Getting it Right

Moral Virtue

In Favor of Socratic Deference

Wrap-Up

Chapter 8 The Vulnerability Objection

Motivating the ObjectilÃN

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