The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology

Table of Contents Part One: Historical Backgrounds to Social Epistemology * Overview chapter (outlining the significance of several historical backgrounds to social epistemology, providing some perspective on their connections and their significance for social epistemology) * Kuhn and the History of Science * Two Kinds of Social Epistemology * The Sociology of Science and the Strong Programme * The Naturalized Turn in Epistemology-Engineering for Truth-Seeking * Methodology in Social Epistemology Part Two: Testimony * Overview chapter (outlining the historical background, the structure of testimonial warrant, the connection to theories of speech acts and theories of practical reason, and issues surrounding knowledge transfer) * Transferring Knowledge * Reductionism vs. Anti-Reductionism * Epistemic Vigilance * Trust, Assurance, and Interpersonal Reasons * Trusting Experts * Argumentation Theory * Testimony and the Law Part Three: Disagreement, Diversity and Relativism * Overview chapter (presenting the big issues associated with epistemic disagreement, diversity, and relativism) * Agreement Theorems * Conformism * Non-conformism * Religious Disagreement * Epistemic Relativism and Disagreement * The Social Epistemic Significance of Diversity Part Four: Science and Social Epistemology * Overview chapter * The Sociology of Science and Social Constructivism * Modeling Epistemic Communities * Epistemic Norms as Social Norms Part Five: The Epistemology of Groups * Overview chapter (introducing the different views in the background literature) * Group belief, group knowledge * Disseminated justification * Institutions and their epistemic virtues/vices-a case study Part Six: Feminist Epistemology * Overview chapter * Socially Situated Epistemology-Standpoint theory then and now * Gender and Race-The epistemology of ignorance * Prejudice and Implicit Bias Part Seven: The Epistemology of Democracy * Overview chapter * Epistemic democracy and Truth * Voting * Collective Intelligence and Democracy * The Epistemic Benefits of Democracy: a Critical Assessment Part Eight: The Epistemology of Education * Overview chapter (Educational as a social institution; states of development and learning; cognitive science and teaching and learning; indoctrination vs. understanding; from pre-primary school to university.) * Critical Reasoning and the Function of Education * Epistemic Virtues and Education Part Nine: New Horizons of Social Epistemology * Overview chapter * Power and the Politics of Knowledge Production * Economic Experiments and Game Theory * The Epistemology of Climate Change