Collective Epistemology

Hans Bernhard Schmid is SNF-Professor of Philosophy at the University of Basel. His areas of specialization include Phenomenology, Social Philosophy, Social and Sociological Theory. His current Research Project is on the Metaphysics of the Social World . Main publications: Plural Action. Essays on Philosophy and Social Science (Hamburg: Springer 2009); Rationality and Commitment (ed. with Fabienne Peter; Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007).
Daniel Sirtes is a visiting scholar at the University of Konstanz. His areas of specialization include social epistemology, philosophy of biology and peer review research. He is about to submit his PhD thesis entitled: Explaining Mechanisms. A Pragmatic-Ontic Account of Mechanisms in Biology.
Marcel Weber is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Konstanz. His research focuses on the philosophy of biology, general philosophy of science and social epistemology. Main publications: Philosophy of Experimental Biology (Cambridge University Press 2005) and Menschliches Leben (with Sebastian Knell, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 2009).