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This book examines the interpersonal relations and social structures which enable and inhibit the sharing of knowledge within and across epistemic communities, drawing on resources from moral theory, the philosophy of language, action theory and the cognitive sciences. It will interest students and scholars of social epistemology.
List of contents
1. Introduction: testimony and the transmission of knowledge; 2. The framework presented: testimonial knowledge and the flow of information; 3. Joint agency and the role of trust in testimonial knowledge; 4. Social norms and social sensibilities; 5. A unified account of generation and transmission; 6. The framework extended: common knowledge; 7. Education and the transmission of understanding; 8. Reductionism and big science; 9. Social religious epistemology; Appendix: the garbage problem.
About the author
John Greco holds the McDevitt Chair in Philosophy at Georgetown University, Washington DC. His publications include Putting Skeptics in their Place: The Nature of Skeptical Arguments and their Role in Philosophical Inquiry (Cambridge, 2000), and Achieving Knowledge: A Virtue-Theoretic Account of Epistemic Normativity (Cambridge, 2010). He is co-editor (with Christoph Kelp) of Virtue-Theoretic Epistemology: New Methods and Approaches (Cambridge, forthcoming).
Summary
This book examines the interpersonal relations and social structures which enable and inhibit the sharing of knowledge within and across epistemic communities, drawing on resources from moral theory, the philosophy of language, action theory and the cognitive sciences. It will interest students and scholars of social epistemology.
