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Tables of Contents for Social Epistemology
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction to the Second Edition
ix
Foreword
xxv
Preface
xxvii
PART ONE ISSUES IN DEFINING THE FIELD OF SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY
An Overview of Social Epistemology
3
28
Social Epistemology as the Goal of All Epistemology
4
6
Social Epistemology as the Pursuit of Scandal and Extravagance
10
7
Nonnormative Social Epistemology and Other Accommodating Banalities
17
7
Social Epistemology Rendered Normative and Epistemology Rendered Interesting
24
7
Social Epistemology and Social Metaphysics
31
34
Drawing the Distinction
31
5
Transcendental and Naturalistic Approaches to Representation
36
15
45
2
47
4
Explaining Transcendentalism Naturalistically: Bloor on Popper
51
14
PART TWO ISSUES IN THE LANGUAGE AND HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
Realism, The Moving Target of Science Studies: A Tale of Philosophers, Historians, and Sociologists in Hot Pursuit
65
34
Realism: Who's Got the Burden of Proof?
66
3
Why Is It Now So Difficult to Defeat the Realist?
69
4
Putting Scientific Realism to the Historical Test
73
12
Kuhn and the Realism of Many-Worlds
85
4
Regulative and Constitutive Realism in the Human Sciences
89
7
The Ultimate Solution to the Problem of Realism
96
3
Bearing the Burden of Proof: On the Frontier of Science and History
99
18
Feyerabend and the Problem of ``Rival Yet Incommensurable'' Theories
100
5
The Missing Link: Burden of Proof
105
6
Burden of Proof as Tacit Knowledge: Rule-Governedness
111
6
Incommensurability Explained and Defended
117
22
Ecological Incommensurability
117
11
Textual Incommensurability
128
11
The Inscrutability of Silence and the Problem of Knowledge in the Human Sciences
139
36
Inscrutability and the Analytic Philosophy of Language
139
8
Inscrutability as a Neglected but Persistent Theme in the History of the Human Sciences
147
4
Conjuring Up Inscrutability in Thought Experiments
151
7
Postscript: A Diagnosis of Davidsonism
158
17
163
12