@article{bb35a19894ff41ed8b7cea908a58170d,
title = "On social defeat",
abstract = "Influential cases have been provided that seem to suggest that one can fail to have knowledge because of the social environment. If not a distinct kind of social defeater, is there a uniquely social phenomenon that defeats knowledge? My aim in this paper is to explore these questions. I shall argue that despite initial appearances to the contrary, we have no reason to accept a special class of social defeater, nor any essentially social defeat phenomenon. We can explain putative cases of social defeat with our existing epistemological apparatus.",
keywords = "Defeaters, Epistemology, Social epistemology",
author = "Madison, {B. J.C.}",
note = "Funding Information: Thanks to audiences at the Cardiff University workshop “Social Epistemology and Epistemic Norma-tivity” (in particular, I recall helpful comments from Mona Simion, Cameron Boult, Alessandra Tanesini, Orestis Palermos, and Sandy Goldberg), and the 2019 Bled Epistemology Conference (thanks to Peter Graham, Jack Lyons, Chris Kelp, Mona Simion, Kelly Becker, Bob Beddor, Michael Hannon, and Hilary Kornblith for their helpful comments). Thanks especially to Sandy Goldberg, Rhiannon James, two anonymous reviewers and an editor at the Canadian Journal of Philosophy for detailed written feedback on earlier drafts of this paper. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2020. Published by Canadian Journal of Philosophy.",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1017/can.2020.28",
language = "English",
volume = "50",
pages = "719--734",
journal = "Canadian Journal of Philosophy",
issn = "0045-5091",
publisher = "University of Lethbridge",
number = "6",
}