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 EpistemologySteve 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

What we can say about the Reider volume is that it has taken the brave and humanistic approach to the dialectic in both its structure and in its overall cast; the editor asked for foundational articles from the flag-bearers of what we might call the analytic and the critical approaches to social epistemology, and then solicited thought-provoking responses to them.