Knowledge in a Social World

by Alvin I. Goldman

Book Overview

Knowledge in a Social World offers a philosophy for the information age. Alvin Goldman explores new frontiers by creating a thoroughgoing social epistemology, moving beyond the traditional focus on solitary knowers. Social, cultural, and technological changes present new challenges to our ways of knowing and understanding, and philosophy must face these challenges. Against the tides of postmodernism and social constructionism Goldman defends the integrity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198238207
• ISBN13: 9780198238201
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"