The links of epistemic cooperation

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to articulate the notion of epistemic cooperation with the reliability, offering an alternative to intellectualism. The main thesis is that the reliability of the epistemic processes is formed from that the subjects cooperate with each other in the attribution of knowledge. Thus, epistemic cooperation links with various theoretical positions: (a) with the contextualism, to constitute a flexible or demanding context for accepting propositions, (b) with a response to skepticism, as the skeptic remains isolated from the context of utterance and assessment, (c) with inductivism and circularity, because by epistemic cooperation determines which contexts inductivism and circularity are legitimate arguments.