Social Epistemology (Science, Technology, and Society)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: August 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780253206930
Subjects: Epistemology, theory of knowledge; Sociology, Social Studies; General; Questions & Answers; Sociology; Knowledge, Sociology of; Social epistemology; Science/Mathematics
First sentence: The fundamental question of the field of study I call social epistemology is: How should the pursuit of knowledge be organized, given that under normal circumstances knowledge is pursued by many human beings, each working on a more or less well-defined body of knowledge and each equipped with roughly the same imperfect cognitive capacities, albeit with varying degrees of access to one another's activities?