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Knowledge in a social world
1999, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
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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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