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Minding Our Epistemic Business

Recently, there has been a lot of theorizing about distinctively epistemic blame. This raises a question: why are the purely epistemic failings of others our business, such that we have standing to blame them? Cameron Boult provides an answer: given how thoroughly epistemically interdependent we are, our epistemic failures let others down and so are their business. By drawing on work on analogous questions in ethics, I argue that Boult’s account of our standing to epistemically blame is too permissive.聽