Description
Edited by an international team of leading scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology is the first major reference work devoted to this growing field. The Handbook’s 46 chapters, all appearing in print here for the first time, and written by philosophers and social theorists from around the world, are organized into eight main parts:
- Historical Backgrounds
- The Epistemology of Testimony
- Disagreement, Diversity, and Relativism
- Science and Social Epistemology
- The Epistemology of Groups
- Feminist Epistemology
- The Epistemology of Democracy
- Further Horizons for Social Epistemology
With lists of references after each chapter and a comprehensive index, this volume will prove to be the definitive guide to the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of social epistemology.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1: Historical Backgrounds to Social Epistemology
- On the background of social epistemology
- The What, Why, and How of Social Epistemology
- The twin roots and branches of social epistemology
- The Philosophical Origins of Classical Sociology of Knowledge
- Kuhn and the History of Science
- The Naturalized Turn in Epistemology: Engineering for Truth-Seeking
- Counterexamples to Testimonial Transmission
- Trust and Reputation as Filtering Mechanisms of Knowledge
- Socially Distributed Cognition and the Epistemology of Testimony
- Assurance views of testimony
- Testimonial Knowledge: Understanding the Evidential, Uncovering the Interpersonal
- The Epistemology of Expertise
- Moral Testimony
- Testimony and Grammatical Evidentials
- Epistemic Disagreement, Diversity and Relativism
- The Epistemic Significance of Diversity
- Epistemic Relativism
- Epistemic Peer Disagreement
- Religious Diversity and Disagreement
- Epistemology without Borders: Epistemological Thought Experiments and Intuitions in Cross-Cultural Contexts
- The Sociology of Science and Social Constructivism
- The Social Epistemology of Consensus and Dissent
- Modeling epistemic communities
- Feminist Philosophy of Science as Social Epistemology
- The Epistemology of Groups
- Group Belief and Knowledge
- The Reflexive Social Epistemology of Human Rights
- Feminist Epistemology
- Race and Gender and Epistemologies of Ignorance
- Implicit Bias and Prejudice
- Epistemic Justice and Injustice
- Standpoint Then and Now
- Sympathetic Knowledge and the Scientific Attitude: Classic Pragmatist Resources for Feminist Social Epistemology
- The Epistemology of Democracy: An Overview
- Pragmatism and Epistemic Democracy
- Epistemic Proceduralism
- Jury Theorems
- The epistemic role of science and expertise in liberal democracy
- The Epistemic Benefits of Democracy: A Critical Assessment
- Social Epistemology, Descriptive and Normative
- Epistemic Norms as Social Norms
- Educating for Good Questioning as a Democratic Skill
- Intellectual Virtues, Critical Thinking, and the Aims of Education
- Computational Models in Social Epistemology
- Epistemology and Climate Change
David Henderson
Alvin I. Goldman
Finn Collin
Stephen Turner
K. Brad Wray
Chase Wrenn
Part 2: The Epistemology of Testimony
Peter J. Graham and Zachary Bachman
Gloria Origgi
Joseph Shieber
Philip J. Nickel
Melissa A. Koenig & Benjamin McMyler
Carlo Martini
Laura F. Callahan
Peter van Elswyk
Part 3: Disagreement, Diversity and Relativism
J. Adam Carter
Kristina Rolin
Michael P. Lynch
Filippo Ferrari & Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen
Matthew Benton
Eric Kerr
Part 4: Science and Social Epistemology
Overview: on Science and Social Epistemology
David Henderson
Michael Lynch
Boaz Miller
Samuli Reijula and Jaakko Kuorikoski
Sharon Crasnow
Part 5: The Epistemology of Groups
Deborah P. Tollefsen
Alexander Bird
Allen Buchanan
Part 6: Feminist Epistemology
Heidi Grasswick
Linda M. Alcoff
Jules Holroyd & Kathy Puddifoot
Nancy Daukas
Alessandra Tanesini
Shannon Dea & Matthew Silk
Part 7: The Epistemology of Democracy
Robert B. Talisse
Eva Erman & Niklas Möller
Michael Fuerstein
Franz Dietrich & Kai Spiekermann
Klemens Kappel & Julie Zahle
Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij
Part 8: Further Horizons for Social Epistemology
Sanford C. Goldberg
David Henderson & Peter J. Graham
Lani Watson
Jason Baehr
Igor Douven
David Coady



