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Author(s): Steve Fuller
ISBN(s): 9781844658176, 1844658171
Edition: 1
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Year: 2014
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1844658171 
ISBN 13: 9781844658176
Author: Steve Fuller

The theory of knowledge, or epistemology, is often regarded as a dry topic that bears little relation to actual knowledge practices. Knowledge: The Philosophical Quest in History addresses this perception by showing the roots, developments and prospects of modern epistemology from its beginnings in the nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with an introduction to the central questions and problems in theory of knowledge, Steve Fuller goes on to demonstrate that contemporary epistemology is enriched by its interdisciplinarity, analysing keys areas including: Epistemology as Cognitive Economics Epistemology as Divine Psychology Epistemology as Philosophy of Science Epistemology as Sociology of Science Epistemology and Postmodernism. A wide-ranging and historically-informed assessment of the ways in which man has – and continues to – pursue, question, contest, expand and shape knowledge, this book is essential reading anyone in the Humanities and Social Sciences interested in the history and practical application of epistemology.

Knowledge The Philosophical Quest in History 1st Table of contents:

1 Epistemology as cognitive economics
Social epistemology as the art of cognitive management
Two kinds of cognitive economy for social epistemology
The history of epistemology as a struggle over cognitive economy
The problem of the economic use of knowledge already produced
Why did our ancestors seem to know so much more than we know now?
Projecting the future of social epistemology: the proactionary imperative
2 Epistemology as divine psychology
The divine origins of intellectual life
Secularizing the sacred mind: the centrality of theodicy
Theism by other means: sociology’s secular problematic
Why naturalism is too conservative to explain science
David Hume: naturalist philosopher of diminished expectations
The need for theism to explain science
The awkwardness of natural theology in the secular world
Intelligent design: a “Left Creationist” affirmation of science
Darwinism’s own anti-humanist theodicy
Recap: the Creationist Left’s challenge to the science-relision nexus
3 Epistemology as psychology of science
In the beginning the psychologist was the self-conscious scientist
The genealogy of validity: from the bank to the lab bench
The need for psychology of science to improve the conduct of science
Conclusion: how scientific creativity went from being abundant to scarce
4 Epistemology as philosophy of science
By misunderstanding Kuhn, we misunderstand our own times
Kuhn’s legacy of perscriptive/descriptive confusion
Popper’s (pre-)challenge to Kuhn and Kuhn’s anti-rationalist response
Kuhn’s contemporary legacy: the naturalization of consensus in science
The problem of positioning Popper on his own terms
The key to Popper: the psychologist who never really left the lab
The problem of assessing Popper’s philosophical fortunes
5 Epistemology as sociology of science
In search of the “will to science”: from religious inspiration to remunerated research
Science and expertise: natural bedfellows or mortal enemies?
Expertise as site for normative recession in analytic social epistemology
Expertise as site for normative recession in science and technology studies
Learning from the past to redeem a normatively “fuller” social epistemology
The challenge ahead: the legacies of Kuhn and Latour as obstacles
6 Epistemology as counterfactual historiography
The complementarity of freedom and determinism in the modern world-view
Freedom and determinism as a problem of historical perspective
Possible worlds as the micro-structure of freedom and determinism
The normative stakes of a flexibly revisable history
Giving the past back its future: the ultimate test of “giving voice”
Conclusion Redeeming epistemology from the postmodern condition

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