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 Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1: Historical Backgrounds to Social Epistemology On the background of social epistemology David Henderson The What, Why, and How of Social Epistemology Alvin I. Goldman The twin roots and branches of social epistemology Finn Collin The Philosophical Origins of Classical Sociology of Knowledge Stephen Turner Kuhn and the History of Science K. Brad Wray The Naturalized Turn in Epistemology: Engineering for Truth-Seeking Chase Wrenn Part 2: The Epistemology of Testimony Counterexamples to Testimonial Transmission Peter J. Graham and Zachary Bachman Trust and Reputation as Filtering Mechanisms of Knowledge Gloria Origgi Socially Distributed Cognition and the Epistemology of Testimony Joseph Shieber Assurance views of testimony Philip J. Nickel Testimonial Knowledge: Understanding the Evidential, Uncovering the Interpersonal Melissa A. Koenig & Benjamin McMyler The Epistemology of Expertise Carlo Martini Moral Testimony Laura F. Callahan Testimony and Grammatical Evidentials Peter van Elswyk Part 3: Disagreement, Diversity and Relativism Epistemic Disagreement, Diversity and Relativism J. Adam Carter The Epistemic Significance of Diversity Kristina Rolin Epistemic Relativism Michael P. Lynch Epistemic Peer Disagreement Filippo Ferrari & Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen Religious Diversity and Disagreement Matthew Benton 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 The Sociology of Science and Social Constructivism Michael Lynch The Social Epistemology of Consensus and Dissent Boaz Miller Modeling epistemic communities Samuli Reijula and Jaakko Kuorikoski Feminist Philosophy of Science as Social Epistemology Sharon Crasnow Part 5: The Epistemology of Groups The Epistemology of Groups Deborah P. Tollefsen Group Belief and Knowledge Alexander Bird The Reflexive Social Epistemology of Human Rights Allen Buchanan Part 6: Feminist Epistemology Feminist Epistemology Heidi Grasswick Race and Gender and Epistemologies of Ignorance Linda M. Alcoff Implicit Bias and Prejudice Jules Holroyd & Kathy Puddifoot Epistemic Justice and Injustice Nancy Daukas Standpoint Then and Now Alessandra Tanesini Sympathetic Knowledge and the Scientific Attitude: Classic Pragmatist Resources for Feminist Social Epistemology Shannon Dea & Matthew Silk Part 7: The Epistemology of Democracy The Epistemology of Democracy: An Overview Robert B. Talisse Pragmatism and Epistemic Democracy Eva Erman & Niklas Möller Epistemic Proceduralism Michael Fuerstein Jury Theorems Franz Dietrich & Kai Spiekermann The epistemic role of science and expertise in liberal democracy Klemens Kappel & Julie Zahle The Epistemic Benefits of Democracy: A Critical Assessment Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij Part 8: Further Horizons for Social Epistemology Social Epistemology, Descriptive and Normative Sanford C. Goldberg Epistemic Norms as Social Norms David Henderson & Peter J. Graham Educating for Good Questioning as a Democratic Skill Lani Watson Intellectual Virtues, Critical Thinking, and the Aims of Education Jason Baehr Computational Models in Social Epistemology Igor Douven Epistemology and Climate Change David Coady
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).
