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Book SynopsisThis volume collects twelve essays by Sanford C. Goldberg on the topic of social epistemology. The first half develops a proposal for a programme for social epistemology; the second focuses on applications of this programme to topics like testimony, inquiry, and epistemic aspects of social norms.
Table of ContentsIntroduction 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
