Knowledge in a social world
By: Alvin I. Goldman.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 407
Subjects: Social epistemology
Description: "Knowledge in a Social World offers a philosophy for the information age. Alvin Goldman explores new frontiers by creating a thoroughgoing social epistemology, moving beyond the traditional focus on solitary knowers. Against the tides of postmodernism and social constructionism Goldman defends the integrity of truth and shows how to promote it by well-designed forms of social interaction. From science to education, from law to democracy, he shows why and how public institutions should seek knowledge-enhancing practices. The result is a bold, timely, and systematic treatment of the philosophical foundations of an information society."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-393) and indexes.
Table of contents: label: Part 1
title: Foundations; label: chapter 1
title: Epistemology and Postmodern Resistance
pagenum: 3; label: section 1
title: Truth seeking in the social world
pagenum: 3; label: section 2
title: Veriphobia
pagenum: 7; label: section 3
title: Six criticisms of truth-based epistemology
pagenum: 9; label: section 4
title: The argument from social construction
pagenum: 10; label: section 5
title: Language and worldmaking
pagenum: 17; label: section 6
title: The unknowability criticism
pagenum: 22; label: section 7
title: The denial of epistemic privilege
pagenum: 26; label: section 8
title: The argument from domination
pagenum: 33; label: section 9
title: The argument from bias
pagenum: 37; label: chapter 2
title: Truth
pagenum: 41; label: section 1
title: Approaches to the theory of truth
pagenum: 41; label: section 2
title: Instrumentalism and relativism
pagenum: 42; label: section 3
title: Epistemic approaches to truth
pagenum: 44; label: section 4
title: Realisms, antirealisms, and truth
pagenum: 48; label: section 5
title: Deflationism
pagenum: 51; label: section 6
title: The correspondence theory
pagenum: 59; label: section 7
title: Partial compatibility between correspondence and deflation?
pagenum: 66; label: chapter 3
title: The Framework
pagenum: 69; label: section 1
title: Alternative conceptions of social epistemology
pagenum: 69; label: section 2
title: Employing veritism
pagenum: 79; label: section 3
title: Veritism and circularity
pagenum: 83; label: section 4
title: Veritistic value
pagenum: 87; label: section 5
title: Complications: interests, attribution, and questions
pagenum: 94; label: Part 2
title: Generic Social Practices; label: chapter 4
title: Testimony
pagenum: 103; label: section 1
title: The social spread of knowledge
pagenum: 103; label: section 2
title: A Bayesian inference practice
pagenum: 109; label: section 3
title: A veritistic rationale for Bayesian inference
pagenum: 115; label: section 4
title: Estimating testimonial likelihoods
pagenum: 123; label: section 5
title: Justification of testimony-based belief
pagenum: 126; label: chapter 5
title: Argumentation
pagenum: 131; label: section 1
title: Monological argumentation
pagenum: 131; label: section 2
title: Dialogical argumentation
pagenum: 139; label: section 3
title: Truth-in-evidence and the cultural climate for argumentation
pagenum: 144; label: section 4
title: Fallacies and good argumentation
pagenum: 150; label: section 5
title: Alternative approaches to argumentation
pagenum: 154; label: chapter 6
title: The Technology and Economics of Communication
pagenum: 161; label: section 1
title: How technology matters to knowledge
pagenum: 161; label: section 2
title: Computer-mediated communication
pagenum: 165; label: section 3
title: The economics of scholarly communication
pagenum: 173; label: section 4
title: The economics of the mass media
pagenum: 182; label: chapter 7
title: Speech Regulation and the Marketplace of Ideas
pagenum: 189; label: section 1
title: Third-party and institutional influences on speech
pagenum: 189; label: section 2
title: Economic theory, market efficiency, and veritistic value
pagenum: 194; label: section 3
title: When and how nonmarket regulation can help
pagenum: 205; label: section 4
title: The metaphorical marketplace and truth
pagenum: 209; label: section 5
title: State regulation and metaregulation
pagenum: 213; label: Part 3
title: Special Domains; label: chapter 8
title: Science
pagenum: 221; label: section 1
title: Science as convention or "form of life"
pagenum: 221; label: section 2
title: A political-military account of science
pagenum: 225; label: section 3
title: Biases and interests
pagenum: 230; label: section 4
title: The theory ladenness of observation
pagenum: 238; label: section 5
title: Underdetermination of theory
pagenum: 242; label: section 6
title: Scientific realism and the veritistic superiority of science
pagenum: 244; label: section 7
title: The case for scientific superiority
pagenum: 248; label: section 8
title: Sources of scientific success
pagenum: 250; label: section 9
title: The distribution of scientific research
pagenum: 254; label: section 10
title: The drive for credit
pagenum: 260; label: section 11
title: Scientific publicatoin
pagenum: 263; label: section 12
title: Recognizing authority
pagenum: 267; label: chapter 9
title: Law
pagenum: 272; label: section 1
title: Truth and legal adjudication
pagenum: 272; label: section 2
title: Alternative criteria of a good adjudication system
pagenum: 279; label: section 3
title: Truth and the Bill of Rights
pagenum: 285; label: section 4
title: Common-law vs. civil-law traditions
pagenum: 289; label: section 5
title: Exclusionary rules
pagenum: 292; label: section 6
title: Adversary control of proceedings
pagenum: 295; label: section 7
title: Discovery and secrecy
pagenum: 300; label: section 8
title: Expert testimony
pagenum: 304; label: section 9
title: Juries
pagenum: 311; label: chapter 10
title: Democracy
pagenum: 315; label: section 1
title: Knowledge and the nature of voting
pagenum: 315; label: section 2
title: Voting and information as studied by political science
pagenum: 317; label: section 3
title: Core voter knowledge
pagenum: 320; label: section 4
title: The democratic value of core voter knowledge
pagenum: 326; label: section 5
title: Improving core information
pagenum: 330; label: section 6
title: Democracy and the press
pagenum: 340; label: section 7
title: Multicandidate elections
pagenum: 342; label: section 8
title: Other types of beneficial knowledge
pagenum: 346; label: chapter 11
title: Education
pagenum: 349; label: section 1
title: Goals, methods, and interests
pagenum: 349; label: section 2
title: Veritism and multiculturalism
pagenum: 353; label: section 3
title: Postmodernism and collaborative learning
pagenum: 356; label: section 4
title: Critical thinking, trust, and pedagogy
pagenum: 362; label: section 5
title: Curricular content and epistemic authority
pagenum: 367