Jennifer Lackey, Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University

Jennifer Lackey is the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University. She is the author of Learning from Words: Testimony as a Source of Knowledge (OUP 2008), the editor of Academic Freedom (OUP 2018) and Essays in Collective Epistemology (OUP 2014), and a co-editor of The Epistemology of Disagreement: New Essays (OUP 2013) and The Epistemology of Testimony (OUP 2006). Jennifer is the winner of the Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution (2015) and the Young Epistemologist Prize (2005). Her work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.

"This brief yet meticulously argued volume from Lackey does the field a great service by cogently arguing that when one ascribes beliefs, justified beliefs, knowledge, assertions, and lies to a group, these cannot be reduced to mere individual mental states ... Lackey's arguments are thorough, direct, and convincing, making a compelling case that group beliefs are sufficiently distinct from individual beliefs to warrant sustained epistemological study." -- L. A. Wilkinson, CHOICE

"...provide a host of new and compelling views that will doubtless be a catalyst for many fruitful discussions in social epistemology." -- Kenneth Boyd, Metascience