Organon F
Volume 32, August 2025, Issue 3, Pages 355–377
ISSN 2585-7150 (online)
Research Article
The Criteria for the Emergence of Collective Epistemic Traits
Strahinja Đorđević – Andrea Berber
The aim of this paper is to offer an analysis of the emergence that group epistemic traits may exhibit. Our research implements a methodological shift in the study of collective traits from defensive argumentation against summativism (the position that rereduces the collective traits to the sum of members’ traits), to offering a positive thesis on the nature of irreducible collective traits. We start from the assumption that there are cases of emergent epistemic traits. By analyzing and comparing examples of emergent traits, we establish three criteria that a trait must meet in order to be considered emergent. Additionally, based on the established criteria we introduce a distinction between the two types of emergences – strong and weak. In the end, we discuss whether there is a correlation between the types of emergence and types of epistemic traits (viz. character and faculty).
Collective virtue epistemology; emergence; summativism; non-summativism; weak and strong emergence.
Author
Strahinja Đorđević
Affiliation
University of Belgrade
Address
Institute for Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Čika-Ljubina 18-20, Beograd 11000, Srbija
strahinja.djordjevic@f.bg.ac.rs
Author
Andrea Berber
Affiliation
University of Belgrade
Address
Institute for Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Čika-Ljubina 18-20, Beograd 11000, Srbija
Received
3 August 2024
Accepted
6 April 2025
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Đorđević, S., Berber, A. (2025). The Criteria for the Emergence of Collective Epistemic Traits. Organon F, 32(3), 355–377. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2025.32305
Chicago
Đorđević, Strahinja – Berber, Andrea. 2025. "The Criteria for the Emergence of Collective Epistemic Traits." Organon F 32 (3): 355–377. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2025.32305
Harvard
Đorđević, S., Berber, A. (2025). The Criteria for the Emergence of Collective Epistemic Traits. Organon F, 32(3), pp. 355–377. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2025.32305
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