Foundations and applications of social epistemology : collected essays / Sanford C. Goldberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldberg, Sanford, 1967- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social epistemology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 239 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Collected essays

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.

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.

Contents:

Cover

Foundations and Applications of Social Epistemology: Collected Essays

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1

2

3

References

I: FOUNDATIONS

1: Social Epistemology, Descriptive and Normative

4

2: A Proposed Research Program for Social Epistemology

1. The Emergence of and Rationale for a Distinctly Social Epistemology

2. Social Epistemology and Epistemic Agency

3. An Interdisciplinary Program for Research in Social Epistemology

4. Conclusion

3: What We Owe Each Other, Epistemologically Speaking: Ethico-Political Values in Social Epistemology

5

6

4: Social Epistemology and Epistemic Injustice

5: Interpersonal Epistemic Entitlements

6: The Division of Epistemic Labor

1. The Division of Epistemic Labor: The Basic Idea

2. Direct Epistemic Dependence: Testimony Cases

3. Distributed Credibility Monitoring

3.1

3.2

4. Diffuse Epistemic Dependence II: Coverage

5. Conclusion

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)?

1. Epistemic Self-Improvementthrough Assertion: Some Skepticism about the Possibility

2. The Case For: Illustrations

3. Core Assumptions

4. Diagnosing the Case for Skepticism

5. Some Unhappy Consequences? Groupthink and Belief Polarization

9: Should Have Known

1. Cases

1.1

1.2

2.1

2.2

10: If That Were True I Would Have Heard about It by Now

2. Epistemic Coverage

3. Testimony Transitions

4. Community and Individual.

5. The Social Epistemology of Coverage: Some Remaining Questions

6. Conclusion

11: Epistemically Engineered Environments

12: Epistemic Extendedness, Testimony, and the Epistemology of Instrument-Based Belief

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-188971-7

0-19-259841-4

OCLC:

1283852702