Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology

Miranda Fricker is presidential professor of philosophy at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research is primarily in ethics and social epistemology with a special interest in virtue and feminist perspectives. She is the author of Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2007); co-author of Reading Ethics: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary (2009); and co-editor of a number of edited collections, the most recent of which is The Epistemic Life of Groups: Essays in the Epistemology of Collectives (2016). She is an associate editor of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association and a fellow of the British Academy.Peter J. Graham is professor of philosophy and linguistics at the University of California, Riverside, where he also served as associate dean for arts and humanities. He specializes in epistemology and related areas in the philosophies of psychology, biology, and the social sciences. He is associate editor of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association and the co-editor of Epistemic Entitlement (2019).David Henderson is Robert R. Chambers distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He teaches and writes primarily in the fields of epistemology and the philosophy of the social sciences. He is the co-author, with Terry Horgan, of The Epistemological Spectrum: At the Interface of Cognitive Science and Conceptual Analysis (2011) and co-editor, with John Greco, of Epistemic Evaluation: Point and Purpose in Epistemology (2015).Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen is associate professor of philosophy at Underwood International College, Yonsei University, and is the founding director of the Veritas Research Center, also at Yonsei University. He is co-editor of New Waves in Truth (2010), Truth and Pluralism: Current Debates (2013), Epistemic Pluralism (2017), and Epistemic Entitlement (2019).

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• Introduction Part 1: Historical Backgrounds to Social Epistemology On the background of social epistemology; The What, Why, and How of Social Epistemology; The twin roots and branches of social epistemology; The Philosophical Origins of Classical Sociology of Knowledge; Kuhn and the History of Science; The Naturalized Turn in Epistemology: Engineering for Truth-Seeking; Part 2: The Epistemology of Testimony Counterexamples to Testimonial Transmission; Trust and Reputation as Filtering Mechanisms of Knowledge; Socially Distributed Cognition and the Epistemology of Testimony; Assurance views of testimony; Testimonial Knowledge: Understanding the Evidential, Uncovering the Interpersonal; The Epistemology of Expertise; Moral Testimony; Testimony and Grammatical Evidentials; Part 3: Disagreement, Diversity and Relativism Epistemic Disagreement, Diversity and Relativism; The Epistemic Significance of Diversity; Epistemic Relativism; Epistemic Peer Disagreement; Religious Diversity and Disagreement; Epistemology without Borders: Epistemological Thought Experiments and Intuitions in Cross-Cultural Contexts; Part 4: Science and Social Epistemology Overview: on Science and Social Epistemology; The Sociology of Science and Social Constructivism; The Social Epistemology of Consensus and Dissent; Modeling epistemic communities; Feminist Philosophy of Science as Social Epistemology; Part 5: The Epistemology of Groups The Epistemology of Groups; Group Belief and Knowledge; The Reflexive Social Epistemology of Human Rights; Part 6: Feminist Epistemology Feminist Epistemology; Race and Gender and Epistemologies of Ignorance; Implicit Bias and Prejudice; Epistemic Justice and Injustice; Standpoint Then and Now; Sympathetic Knowledge and the Scientific Attitude: Classic Pragmatist Resources for Feminist; Part 7: The Epistemology of Democracy The Epistemology of Democracy: An Overview; Pragmatism and Epistemic Democracy; Epistemic Proceduralism; Jury Theorems; The epistemic role of science and expertise in liberal democracy; The Epistemic Benefits of Democracy: A Critical Assessment; Part 8: Further Horizons for Social Epistemology Social Epistemology, Descriptive and Normative; Epistemic Norms as Social Norms; Educating for Good Questioning as a Democratic Skill; Intellectual Virtues, Critical Thinking, and the Aims of Education; Computational Models in Social Epistemology; Epistemology and Climate Change.