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Knowledge and groups

Michael S. Brady and Miranda Fricker (eds.): The epistemic life of groups: essays in the epistemology of collectives. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016, $74.00 HB

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Dragos, C. Knowledge and groups. Metascience 26, 215–218 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-017-0167-0

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