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Patrick J. Reider teaches philosophy at Misericordia University. He is the editor and a contributing author to Wilfrid Sellars, Idealism and Realism: Understanding Psychological Nominalism (2016). He recently contributed to Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective as their Special Issue Editor. SERRC is the online platform for the journal Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy.
Contributors:
Finn Collin, Professor of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Fred D’Agostino, Professor of Philosophy, University of Queensland, Australia; Paul Faulkner, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sheffield, UK; Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology, University of Warwick, UK; Sanford C. Goldberg, Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University, USA; ; Angelica Nuzzo, Professor of Philosophy, Brooklyn College, USA; Orestis Palermos, Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, UK; Duncan Pritchard, Professor of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, UK; Frank Scalambrino, Affiliate Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Dallas, USA; R. Valentine Dusek, Professor of Philosophy, University of New Hampshire, USA; Francis Remedios, independent scholar, Canada
Introduction: What is Social Epistemology and Epistemic Agency? Patrick J. Reider / Part I: Anchor Articles / 1. “A Proposed Research Program for Social Epistemology”
Sanford C. Goldberg / 2. A Sense of Epistemic Agency Fit for Social Epistemology
Steve Fuller / Part II:Responses and Further Considerations / Analytic Social Epistemology and its Alternatives / 3. Two Kinds of Social Epistemology and the Foundations of Epistemic Agency Finn Collin / Fuller's Social Epistemology and Epistemic Agency Francis Remedios and R. Valentine Dusek / Limits to Epistemic Agency / 5. Agency and Disagreement Paul Faulkner / 6. Disciplines, the Division of Epistemic Labor, and Agency Fred D'Agostino / Human and Non-human Epistemic Agents / 7. The Distribution of Epistemic Agency Orestis Palermos and Duncan Pritchard / 8. Toward Fluid Epistemic Agency: Differentiating the Terms Being, Subject, Agent, Person, and Self Frank Scalambrino / Social Epistemology and German Idealism / 9. “Epistemic Agency”: A Hegelian Perspective Angelica Nuzzo / 10. Epistemic Agency as a Social Achievement: Rorty, Putnam, and Neo-German Idealism Patrick J. Reider / Authors of this Text / Index
What we can say about the Reider volume is that it has taken the brave and humanistic approach to the dialectic in both its structure and in its overall cast; the editor asked for foundational articles from the flag-bearers of what we might call the analytic and the critical approaches to social epistemology, and then solicited thought-provoking responses to them.
— Social Epistemology Review & Reply Collective
Social epistemologists have challenged the assumption that an individual epistemic agent is at the center of the analysis of knowing. They have investigated the question of which social processes are effective in bringing about true beliefs and when a person is justified in relying on another person’s testimony. Some social epistemologists have explored the question of whether knowledge or justified belief can be attributed to collective epistemic agents or distributed cognitive systems that may include non-human entities such as artificial intelligence. In light of these developments, Social epistemology and epistemic agency, edited by Patrick Reider, is a timely volume of articles.
— Metascience
This volume is an important contribution to both social epistemology and the theory of epistemic agency, and it can be read with profit not only by professional philosophers but by everyone who is interested in how we can improve knowledge in our communities.
— Frederick F. Schmitt, Oscar R. Ewing Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University
This intriguing volume brings together philosophers and sociologists with very different conceptions of what social epistemology is, or should be, and what it might contribute to our understanding of social agency. It will be essential reading for graduate students and scholars in epistemology, philosophy of science, and sociology.
— Martin Kusch, Professor in Applied Theory of Science and Epistemology, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna