Concept

Social epistemology

Overview

field of study in analytic philosophy

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Social epistemology

• Alvin Goldman
• Brian Leiter
• Miranda Fricker
• Gloria Origgi

Related ideas

• Philosophy
• Analytic philosophy
• John Locke
• Karl Marx
• Underdetermination
• Synthese
• Karl Mannheim
• History and philosophy of science
• Sociology
• Alvin Goldman
• Plato
• Robert K. Merton
• University of Edinburgh
• Knowledge
• Thomas Kuhn
• Social science
• Thomas Reid
• Truth
• Duhem–Quine thesis
• Willard Van Orman Quine
• Philosophy of science
• Qualitative research
• Charmides (dialogue)
• Natural science

Opposing perspectives

• Synthese
• Essentialism
• Steve Fuller (sociologist)
• Social Epistemology (journal)

Place in the tradition

Part of Outline of philosophy.

Narrower topics:

• Karl Mannheim
• Steve Fuller (sociologist)
• Library and information science
• Miranda Fricker
• Ethics and Information Technology
• Knowledge society
• Social Epistemology (journal)

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