Bücher der Reihe Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society

Offers a vital, unique and agenda-setting perspective for the field of social epistemology - the philosophical basis for prescribing the social means and ends for pursuing knowledge.

Offers a vital, unique and agenda-setting perspective for the field of social epistemology - the philosophical basis for prescribing the social means and ends for pursuing knowledge.

This timely volume explores pressing questions that relate to democracy and the politics of knowledge, in a dialogue based on developing and applying philosophies that stress the importance of dialogue, democracy and criticism.

This volume draws together cutting edge research from the social sciences to find ways of overcoming the unconscious prejudice that is present in our everyday decisions, a phenomenon coined by the philosopher Miranda Fricker as 'epistemic injustice'.

This volume considers forms of information manipulation and restriction in contemporary society, paying special attention to contemporary paternalistic practices in big data and scientific research, as the way in which the flow of information or knowledge might be curtailed by the manipulations of a small body of experts or algorithms.

Does scientism pose an existential threat to philosophy, as some philosophers think, or is it a way to make philosophy as 'successful' as science? This book intends is to put forward a fruitful dialogue about scientism and its implications for the future of philosophy as an academic discipline.