Introduction
By Dennis Whitcomb
I. Conceptions of Social Epistemology
Chapter 1. Alvin I. Goldman, "A Guide to Social Epistemology".
Chapter 2. Paul Boghossian, "Epistemic Relativism Defended".
Chapter 3. Miranda Fricker, "Rational Authority and Social Power:
Towards a Truly Social Epistemology".
II. Trust in Testimony and Experts
Chapter 4. Jennifer Lackey, "Testimony: Acquiring Knowledge from
Others" .
Chapter 5. Sanford C. Goldberg, "If that Were True I Would Have
Heard It By Now".
Chapter 6. Alvin Goldman, "Experts: Which Ones Should You
Trust?".
III. Reasonable Peer Disagreement
Chapter 7. Richard Feldman, "Reasonable Religious
Disagreement".
Chapter 8. Adam Elga, "Reflection and Disagreement".
Chapter 9. Thomas Kelly, "Peer Disagreement and Higher Order
Evidence" (selections).
IV. Judgment Aggregation
Chapter 10. Christian List, "Group Knowledge and Group
Rationality".
Chapter 11. Philip Pettit, "Groups with Minds of Their Own".
V. Systems Design
Chapter 12. Larry Laudan, "Thinking about Error in the Law".
Chapter 13. Don Fallis, "Wikipistemology".
Chapter 14. Cass R. Sunstein, "Deliberating Groups vs. Prediction
Markets (or Hayek's Challenge to Habermas)".
Chapter 15. Kevin J. S. Zollman, "The Communication Structure of
Epistemic Communities".
Alvin Goldman is Board of Governors Professor, Department of
Philosophy and Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers
University.
Dennis Whitcomb is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Western
Washington University
"This is a collection of essays that offers comprehensive and detailed information on the basic problems and the concepts of social epistemology. A source of valuable knowledge and will not disappoint those who will study it carefully." --Metapsychology
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