On Twenty-Five Years of Social Epistemology

James H. Collier is the Executive Editor of Social Epistemology and the Founder and Acting Editor of the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective. He is an Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech, USA. His research interests include the conduct of academic and intellectual inquiry. Previous publications include Philosophy, Rhetoric and the End of Knowledge: A New Beginning for Science and Technology Studies (with Steve Fuller, 2004) and Scientific and Technical Communication: Theory, Practice and Policy (with David Toomey, 1997).

Introduction James H. Collier 1. Social Epistemology: A Quarter-Century Itinerary Steve Fuller 2. The Modern Commercialization of Science is a Passel of Ponzi Schemes Philip Mirowski 3. Philosophy in the Age of Neoliberalism Robert Frodeman, Adam Briggle and J. Britt Holbrook 4. Disciplinarity and the Growth of Knowledge Fred D'Agostino 5. To What Extent Could Social Epistemology Accept the Naturalistic Motto? Ilya Kasavin 6. Re-politicising Philosophy of Science: A Continuing Challenge for Social Epistemology Kei Yoshida 7. The Social Epistemologies of Software David M. Berry 8. A Social Epistemology of Reputation Gloria Origgi 9. Anthropology as Social Epistemology? Marianne de Laet 10. The Supplementary Clerk: Social Epistemology as a Vocation Thomas Basbøll 11. Knowing waste: Towards an Inhuman Epistemology Myra J. Hird 12. Toward a Sustainable Epistemology Naomi Scheman