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Social Epistemology (journal)
Overview
Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy is a ranked, bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal. It was established in 1987 and is published by Taylor & Francis. It provides a forum for philosophical and social scientific enquiry that incorporates the work of scholars from a variety of disciplines who share a concern with the production, assessment and validation of knowledge.
The journal covers both empirical research into the origination and transmission of knowledge and normative considerations which arise as such research is implemented, serving as a guide for directing contemporary knowledge enterprises. It operates in tandem with the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, an open-access forum for intellectual inquiry which publishes critical replies to journal articles, book reviews, and article reviews, and hosts debates exploring knowledge as a social phenomenon.
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Hence the primary problem of epistemology is: How is knowledge _überhaupt_, knowledge at large, _possible_? Because of the incompatibility between the concrete occurrence and function of knowledge and the conditions back of it to which it must conform, a second problem arises: How is knowledge in general, knowledge _überhaupt_, _valid_? Hence the complete divorce in contemporary thought between epistemology as…
John Dewey, The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and other essays in contemporary thought
States what Social Epistemology is.
But there is no problem of knowledge in general. I do not mean, of course, that general statements cannot be made about knowledge, or that the problem of attaining these general statements is not a genuine one. On the contrary, specific instances of success and failure in inquiry exist, and are of such a character that one can discover the conditions conducing to success and failure. Statement of these conditions…
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
States what Social Epistemology is.
In every philosophical problem, our investigation starts from what may be called "data," by which I mean matters of common knowledge, vague, complex, inexact, as common knowledge always is, but yet somehow commanding our assent as on the whole and in some interpretation pretty certainly true. In the case of our present problem, the common knowledge involved is of various kinds. There is first our acquaintance with…
Bertrand Russell, Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy
Close in meaning to Social Epistemology; the term itself is not named.
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Part of Social epistemology.
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