Knowledge in a social world.

This text offers a philosophy for the information age. The author creates a social epistemology, moving beyond the traditional focus on solitary knowers.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goldman, Alvin I., 1938-
Autor Corporativo: Oxford University Press
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Temas:
Social epistemology.
Épistémologie sociale.
Social epistemology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Part One: Foundations
  • 1 Epistemology and Postmodern Resistance
  • 1.1 Truth seeking in the social world
  • 1.2 Veriphobia
  • 1.3 Six criticisms of truth-based epistemology
  • 1.4 The argument from social construction
  • 1.5 Language and worldmaking
  • 1.6 The unknowability criticism
  • 1.7 The denial of epistemic privilege
  • 1.8 The argument from domination
  • 1.9 The argument from bias
  • 2 Truth
  • 2.1 Approaches to the theory of truth
  • 2.2 Instrumentalism and relativism
  • 2.3 Epistemic approaches to truth
  • 2.4 Realisms, antirealisms, and truth2.5 Deflationism
  • 2.6 The correspondence theory
  • 2.7 Partial compatibility between correspondence and deflation?
  • 3 The Framework
  • 3.1 Alternative conceptions of social epistemology
  • 3.2 Employing veritism
  • 3.3 Veritism and circularity
  • 3.4 Veritistic value
  • 3.5 Complications: interests, attribution, and questions
  • Part Two: Generic Social Practices
  • 4 Testimony
  • 4.1 The social spread of knowledge
  • 4.2 A Bayesian inference practice
  • 4.3 A veritistic rationale for Bayesian inference
  • 4.4 Estimating testimonial likelihoods4.5 Justification of testimony-based belief
  • 5 Argumentation
  • 5.1 Monological argumentation
  • 5.2 Dialogical argumentation
  • 5.3 Truth-in-evidence and the cultural climate for argumentation
  • 5.4 Fallacies and good argumentation
  • 5.5 Alternative approaches to argumentation
  • 6 The Technology and Economics of Communication
  • 6.1 How technology matters to knowledge
  • 6.2 Computer-mediated communication
  • 6.3 The economics of scholarly communication
  • 6.4 The economics of the mass media
  • 7 Speech Regulation and the Marketplace of Ideas7.1 Third-party and institutional influences on speech
  • 7.2 Economic theory, market effciency, and veritistic value
  • 7.3 When and how nonmarket regulation can help
  • 7.4 The metaphorical marketplace and truth
  • 7.5 State regulation and metaregulation
  • Part Three: Special Domains
  • 8 Science
  • 8.1 Science as convention or “form of lifeâ€?
  • 8.2 A politicalâ€?military account of science
  • 8.3 Biases and interests
  • 8.4 The theory ladenness of observation
  • 8.5 Underdetermination of theory
  • 8.6 Scientific realism and the veritistic superiority of science8.7 The case for scientific superiority
  • 8.8 Sources of scientific success
  • 8.9 The distribution of scientific research
  • 8.10 The drive for credit
  • 8.11 Scientific publication
  • 8.12 Recognizing authority
  • 9 Law
  • 9.1 Truth and legal adjudication
  • 9.2 Alternative criteria of a good adjudication system
  • 9.3 Truth and the Bill of Rights
  • 9.4 Common-law vs. civil-law traditions
  • 9.5 Exclusionary rules
  • 9.6 Adversary control of proceedings
  • 9.7 Discovery and secrecy

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