Social Epistemology
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Author |
: K. Brad Wray |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 245 |
Release |
: 2011-09-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139503464 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139503464 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kuhn's Evolutionary Social Epistemology by : K. Brad Wray
Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) has been enduringly influential in philosophy of science, challenging many common presuppositions about the nature of science and the growth of scientific knowledge. However, philosophers have misunderstood Kuhn's view, treating him as a relativist or social constructionist. In this book, Brad Wray argues that Kuhn provides a useful framework for developing an epistemology of science that takes account of the constructive role that social factors play in scientific inquiry. He examines the core concepts of Structure and explains the main characteristics of both Kuhn's evolutionary epistemology and his social epistemology, relating Structure to Kuhn's developed view presented in his later writings. The discussion includes analyses of the Copernican revolution in astronomy and the plate tectonics revolution in geology. The book will be useful for scholars working in science studies, sociologists and historians of science as well as philosophers of science.
Author |
: Steve Fuller |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0253215153 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780253215154 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Social Epistemology by : Steve Fuller
This is the book that launched the research program of social epistemology, which has fuelled imaginations and provoked debates across many disciplines around the world. Its opening question remains as pressing as ever: How should knowledge production be organised. The second edition contains a substantial new introduction, in which Fuller reflects on social epistemology's place in the history of analytic and continental epistemology and discusses the inspiration he has drawn from a wide variety of fields in the humanities and social sciences. It also includes a spirited attack on alternative philosophical groundings for social epistemology and a detailed response to the standard criticism that social epistemology has received from realist philosophers and natural scientists during the "Science Wars."In Social Epistemology Fuller seeks to reconcile normative philosophy of science and empirical sociology of knowledge. He reinterprets key problems in the philosophy of science, such as realism, the nature of objectivity, the demarcation of science from other disciplines, and the nature of our knowledge of other times and places. In the course of this reinterpretation, which draws on concepts and arguments from many branches of the humanities and social sciences, Fuller considers such philosophically neglected questions as: How is the burden of proof determined in science? On what basis is the historian licensed to say that a "consensus" has been reached on a scientific claim? What implications do our patently imperfect means of linguistic transmission have for the notion that science "retains and accumulates" knowledge? Finally, Fuller proposes a course of "Knowledge Policy Studies" designed to make the theory of knowledge a branch of political theory and thereby to hasten the evolution of the epistemologist into a knowledge policy maker. In its new edition, the book remains a provocative contribution to the debate on the production, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in the sciences.
Author |
: Frank Scalambrino |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2015-12-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781783485345 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1783485345 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Social Epistemology and Technology by : Frank Scalambrino
This book examines the social epistemological issues relating to technology for the sake of providing insights toward public self-awareness and informing matters of education, policy, and public deliberation.
Author |
: James H. Collier |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 2015-12-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781783482672 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1783482672 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Future of Social Epistemology by : James H. Collier
Offers a vital, unique and agenda-setting perspective for the field of social epistemology – the philosophical basis for prescribing the social means and ends for pursuing knowledge.
Author |
: Miranda Fricker |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 490 |
Release |
: 2019-07-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317511489 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317511484 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology by : Miranda Fricker
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.
Author |
: Susann Wagenknecht |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 2016-12-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137524102 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137524103 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Social Epistemology of Research Groups by : Susann Wagenknecht
This book investigates how collaborative scientific practice yields scientific knowledge. At a time when most of today’s scientific knowledge is created in research groups, the author reconsiders the social character of science to address the question of whether collaboratively created knowledge should be considered as collective achievement, and if so, in which sense. Combining philosophical analysis with qualitative empirical inquiry, this book provides a comparative case study of mono- and interdisciplinary research groups, offering insight into the day-to-day practice of scientists. The book includes field observations and interviews with scientists to present an empirically-grounded perspective on much-debated questions concerning research groups’ division of labor, relations of epistemic dependence and trust.
Author |
: Natalie Alana Ashton |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 190 |
Release |
: 2020-03-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429581274 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429581270 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Social Epistemology and Relativism by : Natalie Alana Ashton
This is the first book to explore the connections and interactions between social epistemology and epistemic relativism. The essays in the volume are organized around three distinct philosophical approaches to this topic: 1) foundational questions concerning deep disagreement, the variability of epistemic norms, and the relationship between relativism and reliabilism; 2) the role of relativistic themes in feminist social epistemology; and 3) the relationship between the sociology of knowledge, philosophy of science, and social epistemology. Recent trends in social epistemology seek to rectify earlier work that conceptualized cognitive achievements primarily on the level of isolated individuals. Relativism insists that epistemic judgements or beliefs are justified or unjustified only relative to systems of standards—there is not neutral way of adjudicating between them. By bringing together these two strands of epistemology, this volume offers unique perspectives on a number of central epistemological questions. Social Epistemology and Relativism will be of interest to researchers working in epistemology, feminist philosophy, and the sociology of knowledge.
Author |
: Donald T. Campbell |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 644 |
Release |
: 1988-10-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226092488 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226092485 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Methodology and Epistemology for Social Sciences by : Donald T. Campbell
Selections from the work of an influential contributor to the methodology of the social sciences. He treats: measurement, experimental design, epistemology, and sociology of science each section introduced by the editor, Samuel Overman. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Author |
: Frederick F. Schmitt |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0847679594 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780847679591 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Socializing Epistemology by : Frederick F. Schmitt
In this wide-ranging collection of never before published essays, distinguished scholars in the fields of philosophy and economics examine such questions as whether testimony is a basic source of knowledge, the degree to which notions of a good argument are determined by speakers and their audiences, the role of individual biases in the development of science, and the social aspects of group belief and group justification. The collection ends with the first comprehensive bibliography of social epistemology.
Author |
: Michael Morris |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 315 |
Release |
: 2016-11-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107177093 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110717709X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Knowledge and Ideology by : Michael Morris
For political philosophers, Morris provides an epistemology that integrates social interests within a normative account of knowledge.