Knowledge in a Social World.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Part One: Foundations -- 1 Epistemology and Postmodern Resistance -- 1.1 Truth seeking in the social world -- 1.2 Veriphobia -- 1.3 Six criticisms of truth-based epistemology -- 1.4 The argument from social construction -- 1.5 Language and worldmaking -- 1.6 The unknowability criticism -- 1.7 The denial of epistemic privilege -- 1.8 The argument from domination -- 1.9 The argument from bias -- 2 Truth -- 2.1 Approaches to the theory of truth -- 2.2 Instrumentalism and relativism -- 2.3 Epistemic approaches to truth -- 2.4 Realisms, antirealisms, and truth -- 2.5 Deflationism -- 2.6 The correspondence theory -- 2.7 Partial compatibility between correspondence and deflation? -- 3 The Framework -- 3.1 Alternative conceptions of social epistemology -- 3.2 Employing veritism -- 3.3 Veritism and circularity -- 3.4 Veritistic value -- 3.5 Complications: interests, attribution, and questions -- Part Two: Generic Social Practices -- 4 Testimony -- 4.1 The social spread of knowledge -- 4.2 A Bayesian inference practice -- 4.3 A veritistic rationale for Bayesian inference -- 4.4 Estimating testimonial likelihoods -- 4.5 Justification of testimony-based belief -- 5 Argumentation -- 5.1 Monological argumentation -- 5.2 Dialogical argumentation -- 5.3 Truth-in-evidence and the cultural climate for argumentation -- 5.4 Fallacies and good argumentation -- 5.5 Alternative approaches to argumentation -- 6 The Technology and Economics of Communication -- 6.1 How technology matters to knowledge -- 6.2 Computer-mediated communication -- 6.3 The economics of scholarly communication -- 6.4 The economics of the mass media -- 7 Speech Regulation and the Marketplace of Ideas -- 7.1 Third-party and institutional influences on speech -- 7.2 Economic theory, market effciency, and veritistic value.

7.3 When and how nonmarket regulation can help -- 7.4 The metaphorical marketplace and truth -- 7.5 State regulation and metaregulation -- Part Three: Special Domains -- 8 Science -- 8.1 Science as convention or "form of life" -- 8.2 A political-military account of science -- 8.3 Biases and interests -- 8.4 The theory ladenness of observation -- 8.5 Underdetermination of theory -- 8.6 Scientific realism and the veritistic superiority of science -- 8.7 The case for scientific superiority -- 8.8 Sources of scientific success -- 8.9 The distribution of scientific research -- 8.10 The drive for credit -- 8.11 Scientific publication -- 8.12 Recognizing authority -- 9 Law -- 9.1 Truth and legal adjudication -- 9.2 Alternative criteria of a good adjudication system -- 9.3 Truth and the Bill of Rights -- 9.4 Common-law vs. civil-law traditions -- 9.5 Exclusionary rules -- 9.6 Adversary control of proceedings -- 9.7 Discovery and secrecy -- 9.8 Expert testimony -- 9.9 Juries -- 10 Democracy -- 10.1 Knowledge and the nature of voting -- 10.2 Voting and information as studied by political science -- 10.3 Core voter knowledge -- 10.4 The democratic value of core voter knowledge -- 10.5 Improving core information -- 10.6 Democracy and the press -- 10.7 Multicandidate elections -- 10.8 Other types of beneficial knowledge -- 11 Education -- 11.1 Goals, methods, and interests -- 11.2 Veritism and multiculturalism -- 11.3 Postmodernism and collaborative learning -- 11.4 Critical thinking, trust, and pedagogy -- 11.5 Curricular content and epistemic authority -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Here is a philosophy for the information age. Social, cultural, and technological changes present new challenges to our ways of knowing and understanding, and philosophy must face these challenges. Alvin Goldman explores new frontiers by creating a thoroughgoing social epistemology, moving beyond the traditional focus on solitary knowers, rescuing truth from fashionable assaults and demonstrating its importance to society.

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