Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology

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