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May 13, 2008arnon keren, distributed knowledge, episteme, epistemology, inference to the best explanation, jennifer lackey, john greco, jonathan adler, marc moffett, patrick rysiew, paul faulkner, Peter Lipton, social epistemology, sociocognition, sociology

Testimony abstracts

The abstracts for issue 4:3 of EPISTEME are now available. Apologies for not having them when the announcement was first made – a publisher glitch (to put is very politely).

May 7, 20081, distributed knowledge, epistemology, Neil Gross, political philosophy, relativism, Richard Rorty, social cognition, social constructivism, social epistemology, social identity, social ontology, sociocognition, sociology

This review article/interview plugging a book by Neil Gross that deals with Richard Rorty’s intellectual journey is noteworthy because the writer of this book refers to the sociology of ideas (SI) as superseding the sociology of knowledge (SK): The old sociology of knowledge may have been terribly reductive — ideas are an expression of class interests…

May 3, 2008alvin goldman, david christensen, disagreement, episteme, epistemology, jennifer lackey, social epistemology, sociology

CFP: the significance of disagreement

EPISTEME will hold its sixth annual conference at Northwestern University on June 26-27, 2009. The 2009 meeting will focus on the epistemological significance of disagreement. Confirmed participants include: Michael Bergmann (Purdue), Stewart Cohen (Arizona State), Sherrilyn Roush (Berkeley) and Roger White (MIT). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Papers should be no more than 5,000 words, excluding notes and…