Knowledge in a Social World

Name: Knowledge in a Social World
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ISBN: 9780198238201

ISBN-10: 0198238207

ISBN-13: 9780198238201

Edition: 1999

Authors: Alvin I. Goldman

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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. Social, cultural, and technological changes present new challenges to our ways of knowing and understanding, and philosophy must face these challenges. 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. He urges that social discourse promises more than the mere politics of consensus, and that suitably norm-governed debate and belief-revision can increase…

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/25/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 422
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English




Foundations



Epistemology and postmodern resistance



Truth



The framework



Generic Social Practices



Testimony



Argumentation



The technology and economics of communication



Speech regulation and the marketplace of ideas



Special Domains



Science



Law



Democracy



Education


Bibliography


Index