Defending Joint Acceptance Accounts of Group Belief Against the Challenge from Group Lies

Joint acceptance accounts of group belief hold that groups can form a in virtue the members jointly accepting proposition. Recently, Jennifer Lackey (2020, 2021) proposed challenge to these accounts. If beliefs be based on joint acceptance, then it seems difficult account for all instances telling lie. Given and do lie, our better not result us misidentifying some lies as normal assertions. I argue Lackey‘s argument is decisive. The cases she proposes challenges dealt with framework. present two different readings central case, showing both example problematic lie should identified but rather an epistemic mistake by group. What kind makes depends exact reading either way