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,...