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Epistemic Care: Vulnerability, Inquiry, and Social Epistemology
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Epistemic Care: Vulnerability, Inquiry, and Social Epistemology
Current price: $160.00
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Epistemic Care: Vulnerability, Inquiry, and Social Epistemology
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As embodied and socially interdependent knowers, we have obligations to one another that are generated by our ability to care – that is, to meet each other’s epistemic vulnerabilities. The author begins the book by arguing that the same motivations that moved social epistemologists away from individualistic epistemology should motivate a move to a care-based theory. The following chapters outline our epistemic care duties to vulnerable agents, and offer criteria of epistemic goodness for communities of inquiry. Finally, the author discusses the tension between epistemic care and epistemic paternalism.
will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in social epistemology, ethics, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of education.