Published : 2025-12-29

On Antoni B. Stępień’s (Potentially Social) Epistemology

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In the first part of my text I discuss Antoni B. Stępień’s distinction between cognitive and about-cognitive activities, proposing a closer definition of about-cognitive activities and introducing a distinction between pre-about-cognitive and post-about-cognitive activities. In the second part I analyze Stępień’s conception of epistemology in the context of Alvin Goldman’s distinction between individual and social epistemology, aiming to show how Stępień turns out to be a unique representative of individual epistemology. In the third part I attempt to link some of the observations made by Stępień to two issues of social epistemology: the problem of knowledge concealment and the question of the nature of collective beliefs.

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Antoni B. Stępień, individual epistemology, social epistemology, knowledge concealment, collective beliefs



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Gębura, B. (2025). On Antoni B. Stępień’s (Potentially Social) Epistemology. Roczniki Filozoficzne, 73(4), 119–137. https://doi.org/10.18290/rf25734.7

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