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Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Tanesini

Social Epistemology

The Niches for Knowledge and Ignorance
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5095-5341-9
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

The Niches for Knowledge and Ignorance

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten

ISBN: 978-1-5095-5341-9
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd


Human beings change the world to know it more easily and reliably. That is, we construct social and material environments, or ‘epistemic niches’, and develop cognitive tools to better acquire, transmit, or store information. A queue, for example, is an environment where information about the order of arrival is conveyed by a spatial configuration. Queues are niches that transform an arduous memory task into a simpler perceptual one.

In this important book, Alessandra Tanesini argues that knowledge and ignorance always occur within epistemic niches, and that neither can be properly described or evaluated independently of the niches within which they are found. She explores two dominant themes. First, epistemic niches in the Global North, and increasingly elsewhere, are quantified niches that promote transforming the world into aggregates of data that are suitable for classification, measurement, ranking, standardization, and automation. These niches carry distinctive epistemic benefits and disadvantages. Second, some epistemic niches are in the service of ignorance and oppression rather than knowledge. Tanesini offers analyses of some environments that promote epistemic exploitation, appropriation, cultural imperialism and epistemic extractivism.

Social Epistemology: The Niches for Knowledge and Ignorance is a groundbreaking work for students and scholars of philosophy, political theory, social psychology, and related disciplines.

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Acknowledgements

1 Social Epistemology: Building Relations of Epistemic Dependence
2 Scaffolded Knowledge in Epistemic Niches: The Framework
3 The Cultural Niche
4 The Quantification Niche
5 The Oppressive Niche
6 The Online and Algorithmic Niches
7 The Political Scientific Niche

Notes
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Index


Alessandra Tanesini is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Cardiff University.



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