Cooperative Epistemic Trustworthiness

Abstract Extant accounts of trust in science focus on reconciling scientific and public value judgments, but neglect the challenge learning audience values. I argue that for experts to be epistemically trustworthy, they should adopt a cooperative approach about values their audience. A approach, which expert non-expert inquirers iteratively refine better achieves important second-order epistemic dimensions trustworthiness. suggest strong objectivity feminist standpoint theoretic sense is sometimes prerequisite