Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 288
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-8476-7959-1 • Paperback • October 1994 • $77.00 • (£59.00)
Frederick F. Schmitt is professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of Knowledge and Belief (Routledge, 1992).
Chapter 1 Socializing Epistemology: An Introduction Through Two Sample Issues
Chapter 2 Belief-Forming Practices and the Social
Chapter 3 Egoism in Epistemology
Chapter 4 Speaking of Ghosts
Chapter 5 A Conservative Approach to Social Epistemology
Chapter 6 Contrasting Conceptions of Social Epistemology
Chapter 7 The Fate of Knowledge in Social Theories of Science
Chapter 8 Good Arguments
Chapter 9 Accuracy in Journalism: An Economic Approach
Chapter 10 A More Social Epistemology
Chapter 11 Remarks on Collective Belief
Chapter 12 The Justification of Group Beliefs
Chapter 13 Bibliography
Is knowledge produced by rational individuals struggling mightily to unearth the objective facts? Or is it a wholly social product, reflecting interests and social structures, divorced from the world? It is a bit of each—but the trick is to integrate the rational and the social into a seamless whole. This splendid volume goes a very long way in generating a unified outlook.
— James Robert Brown, University of Toronto
The topic is novel and important, the set of authors outstanding, the collection coherent. An excellent book.
— Ernest Sosa, Brown University
Superb editing and an unusual number of high-quality contributions make this an excellent introduction to the subject. I enthusiastically recommend it.
— Andrew P. Norman; Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
. . . this is a very useful volume, filling a gap in epistemological analysis . . . the articles go considerable distance in suggesting lines of inquiry for gaining a fuller understanding of knowledge as having both individual and social aspects.
— International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
This collection points to many new research areas in epistemology and will give the reader a feel for the excitement surrounding epistemology in its new naturalistic guise.
— Choice Reviews