Social Epistemology and Epistemic Agency

Patrick J. Reider teaches philosophy at Misericordia University. He is the editor and a contributing author to Wilfrid Sellars, Idealism and Realism: Understanding Psychological Nominalism (2016). He recently contributed to Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective as their Special Issue Editor. SERRC is the online platform for the journal Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy. Contributors: Finn Collin, Professor of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Fred D’Agostino, Professor of Philosophy, University of Queensland, Australia; Paul Faulkner, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sheffield, UK; Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology, University of Warwick, UK; Sanford C. Goldberg, Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University, USA; ; Angelica Nuzzo, Professor of Philosophy, Brooklyn College, USA; Orestis Palermos, Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, UK; Duncan Pritchard, Professor of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, UK; Frank Scalambrino, Affiliate Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Dallas, USA; R. Valentine Dusek, Professor of Philosophy, University of New Hampshire, USA; Francis Remedios, independent scholar, Canada

Introduction: What is Social Epistemology and Epistemic Agency? Patrick J. Reider / Part I: Anchor Articles / 1. “A Proposed Research Program for Social Epistemology”
Sanford C. Goldberg / 2. A Sense of Epistemic Agency Fit for Social Epistemology
Steve Fuller / Part II: Responses and Further Considerations / Analytic Social Epistemology and its Alternatives / 3. Two Kinds of Social Epistemology and the Foundations of Epistemic Agency Finn Collin / Fuller's Social Epistemology and Epistemic Agency Francis Remedios and R. Valentine Dusek / Limits to Epistemic Agency / 5. Agency and Disagreement Paul Faulkner / 6. Disciplines, the Division of Epistemic Labor, and Agency Fred D'Agostino / Human and Non-human Epistemic Agents / 7. The Distribution of Epistemic Agency Orestis Palermos and Duncan Pritchard / 8. Toward Fluid Epistemic Agency: Differentiating the Terms Being, Subject, Agent, Person, and Self Frank Scalambrino / Social Epistemology and German Idealism / 9. “Epistemic Agency”: A Hegelian Perspective Angelica Nuzzo / 10. Epistemic Agency as a Social Achievement: Rorty, Putnam, and Neo-German Idealism Patrick J. Reider / Authors of this Text / Index