Amico-Korby, Dallas (2025) The Epistemic Organism: A Defense of Other-Regarding Epistemic Obligations. [Preprint]

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Abstract

It’s a well-recognized truth that what’s morally or politically required can come apart from what’s best for you individually. But this thought—the thought that what’s epistemically required may be divorced from what’s epistemically best for you—is mostly absent in epistemology. On the traditional picture, epistemic obligations are assumed to be self-regarding. In this paper, I argue against this dogma. I argue that we have other-regarding epistemic obligations and epistemic obligations to the groups we are members of. Further, I show how these obligations can play a role in justifying the levying of epistemic taxes.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Amico-Korby, Dallas 0000-0002-3034-9452
Keywords:	Social Epistemology; Political Epistemology; Epistemic norms; Epistemic Obligations; taxes; Role-based obligations
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Epistemology Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Values General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science
Depositing User:	Dallas Amico-Korby
Date Deposited:	03 Nov 2025 11:46
Last Modified:	03 Nov 2025 11:46
Item ID:	27100
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Epistemology Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Values General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science
Date:	2 November 2025
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/27100

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