- 256 pages
- English
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About this book
"The Knowledge Book" is a unique interdisciplinary reference work for students and researchers concerned with the nature of knowledge. It is the first work of its kind to be organized on the assumption that whatever else knowledge might be, it is intrinsically social. The book consists of 42 alphabetically arranged entries on key concepts at the intersection of philosophy and sociology - what used to be called "sociology of knowledge" but is now increasingly called "social epistemology". The entries include concepts common to disciplines that in recent years have devoted more of their attention to knowledge: cultural studies, communication studies, information science, education, policy studies and business studies. Special attention is given to concepts from the emerging field of science and technology studies. Each entry presents a short, self-contained essay providing an overview of a concept and concludes with suggestions for further reading. All the entries are fully cross-referenced, allowing readers to both make connections and follow their own interests.
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Information
Topic
PhilosophySubtopic
Philosophy History & TheoryIndex
analytic philosophy viii, 1–2, 4–5, 16, 24, 53–5, 57, 89, 147, 178
anthropology 53, 56–7, 133, 139–40, 143, 152
Aristotle 10, 20, 56, 116, 128, 133–4, 149–50, 172, 193
Augustine of Hippo 17, 178, 203
Bacon, Francis 24, 130, 182, 200–202
Bergson, Henri 13, 31, 145
Bernal, John Desmond 38, 78, 81, 152, 156, 162
Bhaskar, Roy 5, 13, 43, 48, 121, 162
biology 11, 30–31, 33, 43, 50, 66, 75, 92, 106–7, 111, 130, 140–41, 147, 157, 160, 184–6, 198, 205
Bloor, David 140–42, 173–5, 191
Bourdieu, Pierre 37, 39, 169–70
Butler, Judith 28, 50–52, 64
capitalism 17, 44, 49, 63, 78, 82–4, 86–7, 99, 119, 124, 129, 133, 139, 155, 208
Carnap, Rudolf 5, 56, 89–91, 113
Catholicism 60, 94, 145, 158
chemistry 35, 37, 57, 63, 70–71, 89, 172
China 30, 54, 144, 205
cognitive content of science see EXPLAINING THE COGNITIVE CONTENT OF SCIENCE
Cold War 22–3, 69, 71, 82–3, 85, 90, 93, 152, 163–4, 190
collective memory see COMMON SENSE VERSUS COLLECTIVE MEMORY
computers 37, 69, 75, ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Analytic social epistemology
- Common sense versus collective memory
- Consensus versus dissent
- Criticism
- Disciplinarity versus interdisciplinarity
- Epistemic justice
- Evolution
- Expertise
- Explaining the cognitive content of science
- Explaining the normative structure of science
- Feminism
- Folk epistemology
- Free enquiry
- Historiography
- Information science
- Knowledge management
- Knowledge policy
- Knowledge society
- Kuhn, Popper and logical positivism
- Mass media
- Multiculturalism
- Naturalism
- Normativity
- Philosophy versus sociology
- Postmodernism
- Progress
- Rationality
- Relativism versus constructivism
- Religion
- Rhetoric
- Science and technology studies
- Science as a social movement
- Science wars
- Social capital versus public good
- Social constructivism
- Social epistemology
- Social science
- Sociology of knowledge
- Translation
- Truth, reliability and the ends of knowledge
- Universalism versus relativism
- University
- Bibliography
- Index