Foundations and Applications of Social Epistemology Collected Essays

by Goldberg, Sanford C.

• ISBN13: 9780198856443
• ISBN10: 019885644X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-02-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Sanford C. Goldberg, Northwestern University

Sanford C. Goldberg is Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He is currently a Professorial Fellow in the Arché Research Center and the Philosophy Department at the University of St. Andrews. He works primarily in the areas of
epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. He was Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (2013-16), and previously taught at the University of Kentucky (1999-2007) and Grinnell College (1995-1999). He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1995 and his BA from
Rutgers College of Rutgers University in 1989.

Table of Contents

Introduction
I. Foundations
1. Social Epistemology, Normative and Descriptive
2. A Proposed Research Program for Social Epistemology.
3. What We Owe Each Other, Epistemically Speaking: Ethico-Political Values in Social Epistemology
4. Social Epistemology and Epistemic Injustice
5. Interpersonal Epistemic Entitlements
6. The Division of Epistemic Labou
II. Applications
7. The Epistemic Costs of Politeness
8. Can Asserting that p Improve the Speaker s Epistemic Position (and is that a Good Thing)?
9. Should Have Known
10. If That Were True I Would Have Heard About It By Now
11. Epistemically Engineered Environments
12. Epistemic Extendedness, Testimony, and the Epistemology of Instrument-Based Belief