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This volume collects twelve essays by Sanford C. Goldberg on the topic of social epistemology. The first half develops a proposal for a programme for social epistemology; the second focuses on applications of this programme to topics like testimony, inquiry, and epistemic aspects of social norms.
List of contents
- Introduction
- I. Foundations
- 1: Social Epistemology, Normative and Descriptive
- 2: A Proposed Research Program for Social Epistemology.
- 3: What We Owe Each Other, Epistemically Speaking: Ethico-Political Values in Social Epistemology
- 4: Social Epistemology and Epistemic Injustice
- 5: Interpersonal Epistemic Entitlements
- 6: The Division of Epistemic Labou
- II. Applications
- 7: The Epistemic Costs of Politeness
- 8: Can Asserting that p Improve the Speaker s Epistemic Position (and is that a Good Thing)?
- 9: Should Have Known
- 10: If That Were True I Would Have Heard About It By Now
- 11: Epistemically Engineered Environments
- 12: Epistemic Extendedness, Testimony, and the Epistemology of Instrument-Based Belief
About the author
Sanford C. Goldberg is Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He is currently a Professorial Fellow in the Arché Research Center and the Philosophy Department at the University of St. Andrews. He works primarily in the areas of epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. He was Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (2013-16), and previously taught at the University of Kentucky (1999-2007) and Grinnell College (1995-1999). He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1995 and his BA from Rutgers College of Rutgers University in 1989.
Summary
This volume collects twelve essays by Sanford C. Goldberg on the topic of social epistemology. The first half develops a proposal for a programme for social epistemology; the second focuses on applications of this programme to topics like testimony, inquiry, and epistemic aspects of social norms.
