The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology

ISBN-13: 9781138858510 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 490 str.

Miranda Fricker; Peter J. Graham; David Henderson

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The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology is an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the most important issues and developments in one of the fastest growing areas of research in contemporary philosophy. An international team of scholars articulates the state of the art, draws out important connections, and breaks new ground in many areas of this intersciplinary new field. The 45 chapters, published here for the first time, are divided into nine parts: --Historical Backgrounds to Social Epistemology --Testimony --Disagreement, Diversity, and Relativism --Science and Social Epistemology --The Epistemology of Groups --Feminist Epistemology --The Epistemology of Democracy --The Epistemology of Education --New Horizons in Social Epistemology The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology is a major reference source for all students and scholars in epistemology, as well as researchers in philosophy of science, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of language and in related fields like social and evolutionary psychology, political science, economics, and critical theory.