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Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
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English
Pages
407

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Social epistemology, epistemology, knowledge, Philosophy

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Table of Contents

Part 1. Foundations
chapter 1. Epistemology and Postmodern Resistance Page 3 section 1. Truth seeking in the social world Page 3 section 2. Veriphobia Page 7 section 3. Six criticisms of truth-based epistemology Page 9 section 4. The argument from social construction Page 10 section 5. Language and worldmaking Page 17 section 6. The unknowability criticism Page 22 section 7. The denial of epistemic privilege Page 26 section 8. The argument from domination Page 33 section 9. The argument from bias Page 37 chapter 2. Truth Page 41 section 1. Approaches to the theory of truth Page 41 section 2. Instrumentalism and relativism Page 42 section 3. Epistemic approaches to truth Page 44 section 4. Realisms, antirealisms, and truth Page 48 section 5. Deflationism Page 51 section 6. The correspondence theory Page 59 section 7. Partial compatibility between correspondence and deflation? Page 66 chapter 3. The Framework Page 69 section 1. Alternative conceptions of social epistemology Page 69 section 2. Employing veritism Page 79 section 3. Veritism and circularity Page 83 section 4. Veritistic value Page 87 section 5. Complications: interests, attribution, and questions Page 94
Part 2. Generic Social Practices
chapter 4. Testimony Page 103 section 1. The social spread of knowledge Page 103 section 2. A Bayesian inference practice Page 109 section 3. A veritistic rationale for Bayesian inference Page 115 section 4. Estimating testimonial likelihoods Page 123 section 5. Justification of testimony-based belief Page 126 chapter 5. Argumentation Page 131 section 1. Monological argumentation Page 131 section 2. Dialogical argumentation Page 139 section 3. Truth-in-evidence and the cultural climate for argumentation Page 144 section 4. Fallacies and good argumentation Page 150 section 5. Alternative approaches to argumentation Page 154 chapter 6. The Technology and Economics of Communication Page 161 section 1. How technology matters to knowledge Page 161 section 2. Computer-mediated communication Page 165 section 3. The economics of scholarly communication Page 173 section 4. The economics of the mass media Page 182 chapter 7. Speech Regulation and the Marketplace of Ideas Page 189 section 1. Third-party and institutional influences on speech Page 189 section 2. Economic theory, market efficiency, and veritistic value Page 194 section 3. When and how nonmarket regulation can help Page 205 section 4. The metaphorical marketplace and truth Page 209 section 5. State regulation and metaregulation Page 213
Part 3. Special Domains
chapter 8. Science Page 221 section 1. Science as convention or "form of life" Page 221 section 2. A political-military account of science Page 225 section 3. Biases and interests Page 230 section 4. The theory ladenness of observation Page 238 section 5. Underdetermination of theory Page 242 section 6. Scientific realism and the veritistic superiority of science Page 244 section 7. The case for scientific superiority Page 248 section 8. Sources of scientific success Page 250 section 9. The distribution of scientific research Page 254 section 10. The drive for credit Page 260 section 11. Scientific publicatoin Page 263 section 12. Recognizing authority Page 267 chapter 9. Law Page 272 section 1. Truth and legal adjudication Page 272 section 2. Alternative criteria of a good adjudication system Page 279 section 3. Truth and the Bill of Rights Page 285 section 4. Common-law vs. civil-law traditions Page 289 section 5. Exclusionary rules Page 292 section 6. Adversary control of proceedings Page 295 section 7. Discovery and secrecy Page 300 section 8. Expert testimony Page 304 section 9. Juries Page 311 chapter 10. Democracy Page 315 section 1. Knowledge and the nature of voting Page 315 section 2. Voting and information as studied by political science Page 317 section 3. Core voter knowledge Page 320 section 4. The democratic value of core voter knowledge Page 326 section 5. Improving core information Page 330 section 6. Democracy and the press Page 340 section 7. Multicandidate elections Page 342 section 8. Other types of beneficial knowledge Page 346 chapter 11. Education Page 349 section 1. Goals, methods, and interests Page 349 section 2. Veritism and multiculturalism Page 353 section 3. Postmodernism and collaborative learning Page 356 section 4. Critical thinking, trust, and pedagogy Page 362 section 5. Curricular content and epistemic authority Page 367

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-393) and indexes.

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121
Library of Congress
BD175 .G64 1999, BD175.G64 1999

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Paperback
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xiii, 407 p. ;
Number of pages
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98043283
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39897344
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This is the best of times, or this is the worst of times, for the social pursuit of knowledge.
Page vii, added by Tom Morris.

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