The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy Series

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, all appearing in print here for the first time, and written by philosophers and social theorists from around the world, are organized into eight main parts:

• Historical Backgrounds
• The Epistemology of Testimony
• Disagreement, Diversity, and Relativism
• Science and Social Epistemology
• The Epistemology of Groups
• Feminist Epistemology
• The Epistemology of Democracy
• Further Horizons for Social Epistemology

With lists of references after each chapter and a comprehensive index, this volume will prove to be the definitive guide to the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of social epistemology.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1: Historical Backgrounds to Social Epistemology

1. On the background of social epistemology

David Henderson

2. The What, Why, and How of Social Epistemology

Alvin I. Goldman

3. The twin roots and branches of social epistemology

Finn Collin

4. The Philosophical Origins of Classical Sociology of Knowledge

Stephen Turner

5. Kuhn and the History of Science

K. Brad Wray

6. The Naturalized Turn in Epistemology: Engineering for Truth-Seeking

Chase Wrenn

Part 2: The Epistemology of Testimony

7. Counterexamples to Testimonial Transmission

Peter J. Graham and Zachary Bachman

8. Trust and Reputation as Filtering Mechanisms of Knowledge

Gloria Origgi

9. Socially Distributed Cognition and the Epistemology of Testimony

Joseph Shieber

10. Assurance views of testimony

Philip J. Nickel

11. Testimonial Knowledge: Understanding the Evidential, Uncovering the Interpersonal

Melissa A. Koenig & Benjamin McMyler

12. The Epistemology of Expertise

Carlo Martini

13. Moral Testimony

Laura F. Callahan

14. Testimony and Grammatical Evidentials

Peter van Elswyk

Part 3: Disagreement, Diversity and Relativism

15. Epistemic Disagreement, Diversity and Relativism

J. Adam Carter

16. The Epistemic Significance of Diversity

Kristina Rolin

17. Epistemic Relativism

Michael P. Lynch

18. Epistemic Peer Disagreement

Filippo Ferrari & Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen

19. Religious Diversity and Disagreement

Matthew Benton

20. Epistemology without Borders: Epistemological Thought Experiments and Intuitions in Cross-Cultural Contexts

Eric Kerr

Part 4: Science and Social Epistemology

Overview: on Science and Social Epistemology

David Henderson

21. The Sociology of Science and Social Constructivism

Michael Lynch

22. The Social Epistemology of Consensus and Dissent

Boaz Miller

23. Modeling epistemic communities

Samuli Reijula and Jaakko Kuorikoski

24. Feminist Philosophy of Science as Social Epistemology

Sharon Crasnow

Part 5: The Epistemology of Groups

25. The Epistemology of Groups

Deborah P. Tollefsen

26. Group Belief and Knowledge

Alexander Bird

27. The Reflexive Social Epistemology of Human Rights

Allen Buchanan

Part 6: Feminist Epistemology

28. Feminist Epistemology

Heidi Grasswick

29. Race and Gender and Epistemologies of Ignorance

Linda M. Alcoff

30. Implicit Bias and Prejudice

Jules Holroyd & Kathy Puddifoot

31. Epistemic Justice and Injustice

Nancy Daukas

32. Standpoint Then and Now

Alessandra Tanesini

33. Sympathetic Knowledge and the Scientific Attitude: Classic Pragmatist Resources for Feminist Social Epistemology

Shannon Dea & Matthew Silk

Part 7: The Epistemology of Democracy

34. The Epistemology of Democracy: An Overview

Robert B. Talisse

35. Pragmatism and Epistemic Democracy

Eva Erman & Niklas Möller

36. Epistemic Proceduralism

Michael Fuerstein

37. Jury Theorems

Franz Dietrich & Kai Spiekermann

38. The epistemic role of science and expertise in liberal democracy

Klemens Kappel & Julie Zahle

39. The Epistemic Benefits of Democracy: A Critical Assessment

Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij

Part 8: Further Horizons for Social Epistemology

40. Social Epistemology, Descriptive and Normative

Sanford C. Goldberg

41. Epistemic Norms as Social Norms

David Henderson & Peter J. Graham

42. Educating for Good Questioning as a Democratic Skill

Lani Watson

43. Intellectual Virtues, Critical Thinking, and the Aims of Education

Jason Baehr

44. Computational Models in Social Epistemology

Igor Douven

45. Epistemology and Climate Change

David Coady

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 feminist perspectives. She is the author of Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2007); co-author of Reading Ethics: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary (2009); and co-editor of a number of edited collections, the most recent of which is The Epistemic Life of Groups: Essays in the Epistemology of Collectives (2016). She is an associate editor of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association and a fellow of the British Academy.

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 of the American Philosophical Association and the co-editor of Epistemic Entitlement (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 the social sciences. He is the co-author, with Terry Horgan, of The Epistemological Spectrum: At the Interface of Cognitive Science and Conceptual Analysis (2011)and co-editor, with John Greco, of Epistemic Evaluation: Point and Purpose in Epistemology (2015).

Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen is associate professor of philosophy at Underwood International College, Yonsei University, and is the founding director of the Veritas Research Center, also at Yonsei University. He is co-editor of New Waves in Truth (2010), Truth and Pluralism: Current Debates <