Evaluating Google as an Epistemic Tool

By INC Team, December 4, 2012

Cross posting from my KMi blog (which has paragraph level commenting enabled to facilitate discussion). I’ve just read an article which explicitly considers the evaluation of search engines with respect to their epistemic functions under a social epistemological perspective. There’s a pre-print available http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/teaching_staff/simpson/simpson_index.html and the citation is: Evaluating Google as an Epistemic Tool, Metaphilosophy [...]