The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology

The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology is an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the most important issues and developments in one of the fastest growing areas of research in contemporary philosophy.

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.

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Miranda Fricker is presidential professor of philosophy at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research is primarily in ethics and social epistemology with a special interest in virtue and feminist perspectives. She is the author of Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2007); co-author of Reading Ethics: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary (2009); and co-editor of a number of edited collections, the most recent of which is The Epistemic Life of Groups: Essays in the Epistemology of Collectives (2016). She is an associate editor of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association and a fellow of the British Academy.

Peter J. Graham is professor of philosophy and linguistics at the University of California, Riverside, where he also served as associate dean for arts and humanities. He specializes in epistemology and related areas in the philosophies of psychology, biology, and the social sciences. He is associate editor of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association and the co-editor of Epistemic Entitlement (2019).

David Henderson is Robert R. Chambers distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He teaches and writes primarily in the fields of epistemology and the philosophy of the social sciences. He is the co-author, with Terry Horgan, of The Epistemological Spectrum: At the Interface of Cognitive Science and Conceptual Analysis (2011) *and co-editor, with John Greco, of Epistemic Evaluation: Point and Purpose in Epistemology* (2015).

Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen is associate professor of philosophy at Underwood International College, Yonsei University, and is the founding director of the Veritas Research Center, also at Yonsei University. He is co-editor of New Waves in Truth (2010), Truth and Pluralism: Current Debates (2013), Epistemic Pluralism (2017), and Epistemic Entitlement (2019).

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The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology is a comprehensive survey of the most important issues and developments in one of the fastest growing areas in contemporary philosophy. An international team of scholars breaks new ground in 45 original essays, covering topics such as Historical Backgrounds; Testimony; Disagreement, Diversity, and Relativism; Science and Social Epistemology; The Epistemology of Groups; Feminist Epistemology; The Epistemology of Democracy; The Epistemology of Education; and New Horizons in Social Epistemology. This volume is a major reference source for all students and scholars in philosophy, as well as researchers in intersecting fields.

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The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology is an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the most important issues and developments in one of the fastest growing areas of research in contemporary philosophy.

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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1: Historical Backgrounds to Social Epistemology

1. On the background of social epistemology David Henderson **

2. The What, Why, and How of Social Epistemology ** Alvin I. Goldman

3. The twin roots and branches of social epistemology ** Finn Collin

4. The Philosophical Origins of Classical Sociology of Knowledge ** Stephen Turner

5. Kuhn and the History of Science ** K. Brad Wray

6. The Naturalized Turn in Epistemology: Engineering for Truth-Seeking ** Chase Wrenn

   **** Part 2: The Epistemology of Testimony

7. Counterexamples to Testimonial Transmission ** Peter J. Graham and Zachary Bachman

8. Trust and Reputation as Filtering Mechanisms of Knowledge ** Gloria Origgi

9. Socially Distributed Cognition and the Epistemology of Testimony ** Joseph Shieber

10. Assurance views of testimony ** Philip J. Nickel

11. Testimonial Knowledge: Understanding the Evidential, Uncovering the Interpersonal ** Melissa A. Koenig & Benjamin McMyler

12. The Epistemology of Expertise ** Carlo Martini

13. Moral Testimony ** Laura F. Callahan

14. Testimony and Grammatical Evidentials ** Peter van Elswyk

    **** Part 3: Disagreement, Diversity and Relativism

15. Epistemic Disagreement, Diversity and Relativism ** J. Adam Carter

16. The Epistemic Significance of Diversity ** Kristina Rolin

17. Epistemic Relativism ** Michael P. Lynch

18. Epistemic Peer Disagreement ** Filippo Ferrari & Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen

19. Religious Diversity and Disagreement ** Matthew Benton

20. Epistemology without Borders: Epistemological Thought Experiments and Intuitions in Cross-Cultural Contexts ** Eric Kerr

    **** Part 4: Science and Social Epistemology

    Overview: on Science and Social Epistemology ** David Henderson

21. The Sociology of Science and Social Constructivism Michael Lynch **

22. The Social Epistemology of Consensus and Dissent Boaz Miller **

23. Modeling epistemic communities ** Samuli Reijula and Jaakko Kuorikoski

24. Feminist Philosophy of Science as Social Epistemology Sharon Crasnow ** Part 5: The Epistemology of Groups

25. The Epistemology of Groups Deborah P. Tollefsen **

26. Group Belief and Knowledge ** Alexander Bird

27. The Reflexive Social Epistemology of Human Rights ** Allen Buchanan

    **** Part 6: Feminist Epistemology

28. Feminist Epistemology ** Heidi Grasswick

29. Race and Gender and Epistemologies of Ignorance ** Linda M. Alcoff

30. Implicit Bias and Prejudice ** Jules Holroyd & Kathy Puddifoot

31. Epistemic Justice and Injustice ** Nancy Daukas

32. Standpoint Then and Now ** Alessandra Tanesini

33. Sympathetic Knowledge and the Scientific Attitude: Classic Pragmatist Resources for Feminist Social Epistemology Shannon Dea & Matthew Silk ** Part 7: The Epistemology of Democracy

34. The Epistemology of Democracy: An Overview ** Robert B. Talisse

35. Pragmatism and Epistemic Democracy ** Eva Erman & Niklas Möller

36. Epistemic Proceduralism ** Michael Fuerstein

37. Jury Theorems ** Franz Dietrich & Kai Spiekermann

38. The epistemic role of science and expertise in liberal democracy ** Klemens Kappel & Julie Zahle

39. The Epistemic Benefits of Democracy: A Critical Assessment ** Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij

    **** Part 8: Further Horizons for Social Epistemology

40. Social Epistemology, Descriptive and Normative ** Sanford C. Goldberg

41. Epistemic Norms as Social Norms ** David Henderson & Peter J. Graham

42. Educating for Good Questioning as a Democratic Skill ** Lani Watson

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