ABSTRACT

in this chapter, we outline and motivate the final (and our preferred) of the four candidate models of group polarization: the view that understands group polarization as a collective epistemic virtue in good cases of group polarization and as a collective epistemic vice in the bad cases. In the course of doing so, we show how this view has the resources to avoid all of the problems that faced the other three views, which were discussed in Chapters 5–7.