ABSTRACT
If only it can be harnessed in the right way, the cognitive power of a group is greater than that of the individual. There is more information, more skill, and more thinkers among which to divvy up tasks within a group and the bigger the group, the greater its potential. Analytic epistemology has traditionally focused on individuals and the epistemic goods to which individuals can aspire under their own power. The extended credit view, however, is predicated on the conviction that there is more to being a human knower than this individualistic focus might lead one to suspect. Moving from a focus on the achievements of an individual to the achievements of a team not only opens up new ways for the same goals to be achieved but also creates new opportunities for cognitive processing as well.
