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SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY
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| By: |
Steve Fuller |
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Hardback |
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£41.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0253340691 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780253340696 |
| Publisher: |
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
18 February, 2002 |
| Edition: |
2nd Revised edition |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
Reflects on social epistemology's place in the history of analytic and continental epistemology. This book seeks to reconcile normative philosophy of science and empirical sociology of knowledge. It reinterprets key problems in the philosophy of science, such as realism, the nature of objectivity, and demarcation of science from other disciplines. |
| Synopsis: |
This is the book that launched the research program of social epistemology, which has fuelled imaginations and provoked debates across many disciplines around the world. Its opening question remains as pressing as ever: How should knowledge production be organised. The second edition contains a substantial new introduction, in which Fuller reflects on social epistemology's place in the history of analytic and continental epistemology and discusses the inspiration he has drawn from a wide variety of fields in the humanities and social sciences. It also includes a spirited attack on alternative philosophical groundings for social epistemology and a detailed response to the standard criticism that social epistemology has received from realist philosophers and natural scientists during the 'Science Wars.'In "Social Epistemology", Fuller seeks to reconcile normative philosophy of science and empirical sociology of knowledge. He reinterprets key problems in the philosophy of science, such as realism, the nature of objectivity, the demarcation of science from other disciplines, and the nature of our knowledge of other times and places.In the course of this reinterpretation, which draws on concepts and arguments from many branches of the humanities and social sciences, Fuller considers such philosophically neglected questions as: How is the burden of proof determined in science? On what basis is the historian licensed to say that a "consensus" has been reached on a scientific claim? What implications do our patently imperfect means of linguistic transmission have for the notion that science 'retains and accumulates' knowledge?Finally, Fuller proposes a course of 'Knowledge Policy Studies' designed to make the theory of knowledge a branch of political theory and thereby to hasten the evolution of the epistemologist into a knowledge policy maker. In its new edition, the book remains a provocative contribution to the debate on the production, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in the sciences. |
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1 bibliog., 1 index |
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US |
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Indiana University Press |
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Non-returnable |
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