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THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY Edited by an international team of leading scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology is the first major reference work devoted to this growing field. The Handbook’s 46 chapters, written by philosophers and socialtheorists fromaround theworldand appearing in printhere for thefirst time,are organized into eightmainparts: I.HistoricalBackgroundstoSocialEpistemology II.TheEpistemologyofTestimony III.Disagreement,Diversity,andRelativism IV.ScienceandSocialEpistemology V.TheEpistemologyofGroups VI.FeministEpistemology VII.TheEpistemologyofDemocracy VIII.FurtherHorizonsforSocialEpistemology With lists of references after each chapter and a comprehensive index, this volume will prove to be the definitiveguidetotheburgeoninginterdisciplinaryfieldofsocialepistemology. Miranda Fricker is presidential professor of philosophy at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research is primarily in ethics and social epistemology with a special interest in virtue and feministperspectives.SheistheauthorofEpistemicInjustice:PowerandtheEthicsofKnowing(2007);co-authorof ReadingEthics:SelectedTextswithInteractiveCommentary(2009);andco-editorofanumberofeditedcollections, themostrecentofwhichisTheEpistemicLifeofGroups:EssaysintheEpistemologyofCollectives(2016).Sheisan associateeditoroftheJournaloftheAmericanPhilosophicalAssociationandafellowoftheBritishAcademy. Peter J. Graham is professor of philosophy and linguistics at the University of California, Riverside, where he also served as associate dean for arts and humanities. He specializes in epistemology and related areas in the philosophies of psychology, biology, and the social sciences. He is associate editor of the Journal oftheAmericanPhilosophicalAssociationandtheco-editorofEpistemicEntitlement(2019). David Henderson is Robert R. Chambers distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He teaches and writes primarily in the fields of epistemology and the philosophy of thesocialsciences.Heistheco-author,withTerryHorgan,ofTheEpistemologicalSpectrum:AttheInterface of Cognitive Science and Conceptual Analysis (2011) and co-editor, with John Greco, of Epistemic Evaluation: PointandPurposeinEpistemology(2015). Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen is associate professor of philosophy at Underwood International College, YonseiUniversity,andisthefoundingdirectoroftheVeritasResearchCenter,alsoatYonseiUniversity. He is co-editor of New Waves in Truth (2010), Truth and Pluralism: Current Debates (2013), Epistemic Plur- alism(2017),andEpistemicEntitlement(2019). ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOKS IN PHILOSOPHY Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy are state-of-the-art surveys of emerging, newly refreshed, and important fields in philosophy, providing accessible yet thorough assessments of key problems, themes, thinkers, and recent developments in research. All chapters for each volume are specially commissioned, and written by leading scholars in the field. Carefully edited and organized, Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy provide indispensable reference tools for students and researchers seeking a comprehensive overview of new and excit- ing topics in philosophy. They are also valuable teaching resources as accompaniments to textbooks, anthologies, and research-orientated publications. Also available: The Routledge Handbook of Virtue Epistemology Edited by Heather Battaly The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology Edited by Karen Jones, Mark Timmons, and Aaron Zimmerman The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy Edited by Adrienne M. Martin The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck Edited by Ian M. Church and Robert J. Hartman The Routledge Handbook of Emergence Edited by Sophie Gibb, Robin Hendry, and Tom Lancaster The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evil Edited by Thomas Nys and Stephen de Wijze The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology Edited by Miranda Fricker, Peter J. Graham, Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen, David Henderson For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/Routledge- Handbooks-in-Philosophy/book-series/RHP THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY Edited by Miranda Fricker, Peter J. Graham, David Henderson, and Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen Firstpublished2020 byRoutledge 52VanderbiltAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 andbyRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,Oxon,OX144RN RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©2020Taylor&Francis TherightofMirandaFricker,PeterJ.Graham,DavidHenderson,andNikolajJ.L.L.Pedersentobeidentifiedasthe authorsoftheeditorialmaterial,andoftheauthorsfortheirindividualchapters,hasbeenassertedinaccordancewith sections77and78oftheCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedorutilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic, mechanical,orothermeans,nowknownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinany informationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregisteredtrademarks,andareusedonlyfor identificationandexplanationwithoutintenttoinfringe. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Acatalogrecordforthistitlehasbeenrequested ISBN:978-1-138-85851-0(hbk) ISBN:978-1-315-71793-7(ebk) TypesetinBembo bySwales&Willis,Exeter,Devon,UK CONTENTS Listofcontributors x Introduction xvi PARTI HistoricalBackgroundstoSocialEpistemology 1 1 OntheBackgroundofSocialEpistemology 3 DavidHenderson 2 TheWhat,Why,andHowofSocialEpistemology 10 AlvinI.Goldman 3 TheTwinRootsandBranchesofSocialEpistemology 21 FinnCollin 4 ThePhilosophicalOriginsofClassicalSociologyofKnowledge 31 StephenTurner 5 KuhnandtheHistoryofScience 40 K.BradWray 6 TheNaturalizedTurninEpistemology:EngineeringforTruth-Seeking 49 ChaseWrenn PARTII TheEpistemologyofTestimony 59 7 CounterexamplestoTestimonialTransmission 61 PeterJ.GrahamandZacharyBachman v Contents 8 TrustandReputationasFilteringMechanismsofKnowledge 78 GloriaOriggi 9 SociallyDistributedCognitionandtheEpistemologyofTestimony 87 JosephShieber 10 AssuranceViewsofTestimony 96 PhilipJ.Nickel 11 TestimonialKnowledge:UnderstandingtheEvidential,Uncoveringthe Interpersonal 103 MelissaA.KoenigandBenjaminMcMyler 12 TheEpistemologyofExpertise 115 CarloMartini 13 MoralTestimony 123 LauraFrancesCallahan 14 TestimonyandGrammaticalEvidentials 135 PetervanElswyk PARTIII Disagreement,Diversity,andRelativism 145 15 EpistemicDisagreement,DiversityandRelativism 147 J.AdamCarter 16 TheEpistemicSignificanceofDiversity 158 KristinaRolin 17 EpistemicRelativism 167 MichaelPatrickLynch 18 EpistemicPeerDisagreement 174 FilippoFerrariandNikolajJ.L.L.Pedersen 19 ReligiousDiversityandDisagreement 185 MatthewA.Benton 20 EpistemologywithoutBorders:EpistemologicalThoughtExperimentsand IntuitionsinCross-CulturalContexts 196 EricKerr vi Contents PARTIV ScienceandSocialEpistemology 209 21 Overview:OnScienceandSocialEpistemology 211 DavidHenderson 22 TheSociologyofScienceandSocialConstructivism 220 MichaelE.Lynch 23 TheSocialEpistemologyofConsensusandDissent 230 BoazMiller 24 ModelingEpistemicCommunities 240 SamuliReijulaandJaakkoKuorikoski 25 FeministPhilosophyofScienceasSocialEpistemology 250 SharonCrasnow PARTV TheEpistemologyofGroups 261 26 TheEpistemologyofGroups 263 DeborahPerronTollefsen 27 GroupBeliefandKnowledge 274 AlexanderBird 28 TheReflexiveSocialEpistemologyofHumanRights 284 AllenBuchanan PARTVI FeministEpistemology 293 29 FeministEpistemology 295 HeidiGrasswick 30 RaceandGenderandEpistemologiesofIgnorance 304 LindaMartínAlcoff 31 ImplicitBiasandPrejudice 313 JulesHolroydandKatherinePuddifoot vii Contents 32 EpistemicJusticeandInjustice 327 NancyDaukas 33 StandpointThenandNow 335 AlessandraTanesini 34 SympatheticKnowledgeandtheScientificAttitude:Classic PragmatistResourcesforFeministSocialEpistemology 344 ShannonDeaandMatthewSilk PARTVII TheEpistemologyofDemocracy 355 35 TheEpistemologyofDemocracy:AnOverview 357 RobertB.Talisse 36 PragmatismandEpistemicDemocracy 367 EvaErmanandNiklasMöller 37 EpistemicProceduralism 377 MichaelFuerstein 38 JuryTheorems 386 FranzDietrichandKaiSpiekermann 39 TheEpistemicRoleofScienceandExpertiseinLiberalDemocracy 397 KlemensKappelandJulieZahle 40 TheEpistemicBenefitsofDemocracy:ACriticalAssessment 406 KristofferAhlstrom-Vij PARTVIII FurtherHorizonsforSocialEpistemology 415 41 SocialEpistemology:DescriptiveandNormative 417 SanfordC.Goldberg 42 EpistemicNormsasSocialNorms 425 DavidHendersonandPeterJ.Graham 43 EducatingforGoodQuestioningasaDemocraticSkill 437 LaniWatson 44 IntellectualVirtues,CriticalThinking,andtheAimsofEducation 447 JasonBaehr viii Contents 45 ComputationalModelsinSocialEpistemology 457 IgorDouven 46 EpistemologyandClimateChange 466 DavidCoady Index 474 ix
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