Description
How do we learn from one another on the internet? How can we defend ourselves from propaganda and seek the truth? How do our race, gender, and other aspects of our identity imbue how we learn and know things? Social epistemology explores timely and urgent questions such as these, which is why the field has seen an explosion of interest in recent years. Having originated as a subfield, social epistemology now permeates the agenda of mainstream epistemology, even though it challenges epistemology's traditional focus on the individual.The Oxford Handbook of Social Epistemology offers a collection of cutting-edge essays on many of the most important issues in this rapidly growing area of philosophy. It takes stock of recent developments in the field and reassesses topics that have been thought to fit comfortably within a more traditional approach to epistemology--including our capacities to know our own minds, to reason, and to remember--by examining the ways in which they might be significantly impacted by one's social environment. Several chapters interrogate the boundaries of what social epistemology is by exploring its application to significant issues outside of philosophy--such as psychology, sociology, and political theory--as well as the ways it intersects with ethics, the philosophies of language and mind, political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and critical philosophy of race. Divided into seven sections, this handbook provides a comprehensive coverage of work in this exciting and fertile area of philosophy as it highlights the relevance and importance of social factors to some of the most pressing epistemological questions facing us as agents in the world.
Table of Contents
1. Communication and Epistemic Dependence 1. Assertion Christoph Kelp and Mona Simion2. Testimony Axel Gelfert3. Testimony and Perception Peter Graham4. Epistemic Authority Christoph Jäger5. Expertise Thomas Grundmann 2. Groups and Interpersonal Relationships 6. Group epistemology Fernando Broncano-Berrocal7. Group ignorance Rik Peels & Thirza Lagawaard8. Knowledge Attributions Patrick Rysiew9. Trust J. Adam Carter10. Partiality/Friendship Anna Brickerhoff and Nomy Arpaly11. Adversial Epistemology Don Fallis12. Disagreement & Bias Thomas Kelly13. Social Epistemology and Social Cognition Shannon Spaulding14. Epistemic Blame Jessica Brown 3. Epistemic Wrongs and Epistemic Reparations 15. Epistemic Injustice Aidan McGlynn16. Epistemic Infringement Lauren Leydon-Hardy17. Implicit Bias Katherine Puddifoot18. Doxastic Addiction Carrie Figdor19. Epistemic Reparations Jennifer Lackey 4. Applied Social Epistemology 20. Personalisation and scepticism Michael P. Lynch and Junyeol Kim21. Social Media Joshua Habgood-Coote22. Law Alexander Guerrero23. Political Epistemology Michael Hannon and Elizabeth Edenberg24. Disability Joel Michael Richards and Kevin Timpe25. Climate change David Coady 5. Social Epistemic Goods 26. Standpoint Epistemology in science Kristen Intemann27. Standpoint Epistemology and Ideology Briana Toole28. Know How Yuri Cath 29. Understanding Allan Hazlett30. Wisdom Sharon Ryan and Shane Ryan31. Education Lani Watson 6. Social Perspectives on Individual Sources 32. Memory Alessandra Tanesini33. Self-knowledge/first-person authority Cristina Borgoni34. Reasoning Catarina Dutilh Novaes 7. Social Perspectives on Individualist Approaches 35. Extended knowledge Duncan Pritchard36. Knowledge first Pascal Engel37. Reliabilism Sanford Goldberg38. Virtue Epistemology John Greco39. Contextualism Jonathan Ichikawa40. Evidentialism Jon Matheson41. Hinge Annalisa Coliva
