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Quora: Social epistemology, credibility & the QA interface

A view on the epistemic value of the content and interface of the social QA site
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The evolution of reason

The origin of reasoning is in preparing to persuade or believe others, this paper argues

The Social Epistemology of Wikipedia

Notes from a special issue of Episteme on the epistemology of mass collaboration. In the set of articles reviewed, philosophers consider Wikipedia from the perspective of theories of testimony and truth.

Asking the audience

Bites from the 2006 book “Infotopia” by Cass Sunstein on the aggregation of knowledge