The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology

Edited by an international team of leading scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology is the first major reference work devoted to this growing field. The Handbook’s 46 chapters, all appearing in print here for the first time, and written by philosophers and social theorists from around the world, are organized into eight main parts:





Historical Backgrounds





The Epistemology of Testimony





Disagreement, Diversity, and Relativism





Science and Social Epistemology





The Epistemology of Groups





Feminist Epistemology





The Epistemology of Democracy





Further Horizons for Social Epistemology



With lists of references after each chapter and a comprehensive index, this volume will prove to be the definitive guide to the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of social epistemology.