Boaz Miller (Zefat Academic College)
While philosophers of science formulate conditions for communal knowledge, they say little about when an individual member of an epistemic community knows. I argue that an individual member knows when she responsibly does what is practicably possible to have a true belief. Responsibility is delimited by role-expectations, while practicability is delimited by her competencies, technological, ethical, and economic circumstances. Additionally, the available evidence within a subject's scientific community must support her belief given a legitimate weighing of inductive risks. My account can distinguish cases an expert testifies from knowledge from cases she expresses mere speculation or personal opinion.
