"This is the first book to explore the connections and interactions between social epistemology and epistemic relativism. The essays in the volume are organized around three distinct philosophical approaches to this topic: 1) foundational questions concerning deep disagreement, …
"This is the first book to explore the connections and interactions between social epistemology and epistemic relativism. The essays in the volume are organized around three distinct philosophical approaches to this topic: 1) foundational questions concerning deep disagreement, …
Socially extended epistemology
This volume explores the epistemology of distributed cognition, the idea that groups of people can generate cognitive systems that consist of all participating members. Can distributed cognitive systems generate knowledge in a similar way to individuals? If so, how does this kin…
Essays in collective epistemology
Essays in collective epistemology
Essays in collective epistemology
We often talk about groups believing, knowing, and testifying. For instance, we ask whether the Bush Administration had good reasons for believing that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, or whether BP knew that its equipment was faulty before the oil spill in the Gu…
This text explores the epistemic side of racial and sexual oppression. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from listening to each other.
This book explores the epistemic side of oppression, focusing on racial and sexual oppression and their interconnections. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from interacting epistemically in fruitful ways--from liste…
The Future of Social Epistemology: A Collective Vision sets an agenda for exploring the future of what we-human beings reimagining our selves and our society-want, need and ought to know. This book examines, concretely, practically and speculatively, key ideas such as the public…
" ... Range[s] from children's animation to avant-garde performance and queer art to think about ways of being and knowing that stand outside of conventional understandings of success"--Introduction.
" ... Range[s] from children's animation to avant-garde performance and queer art to think about ways of being and knowing that stand outside of conventional understandings of success"--Introduction.
The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives-to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims t…