Epistemic trespassing and epistemic free-riding
Luís Estevinha Rodrigues (Federal University of Ceará)

20 May 2022, 11:00 (Lisbon Time – WET) | Sala Mattos Romão (Departamento de Filosofia)

Abstract: Experts and non-experts become epistemic trespassers by making judgments about issues belonging to scientific fields where they lack competence, evidence, or both (Ballantyne 2019; DiPaolo 2021). These invasions are usually documented as epistemically illegitimate and create malignant theoretical and social consequences. I argue in this talk that this kind of epistemic transgression is closely related to another: doxastic free-riding, a subset of epistemic free-ridding. After reviewing some examples of these transgressions enacted by experts and non-experts, I generate an explanatory pattern of their association. In the end, I use this pattern to distinguish epistemic trespassing from interdisciplinary cooperation.

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