Recent Work in Social Epistemology

Abstract

Disparate Reasons for (not) ^ Pursuing Social Epistemology Oocial epistemology first appeared as the name of a proposal for making librarian ship more scientific by having facts about the production, distribution, and utilization of impinge more directly on the organization of libraries (De Mey 1982, pp. 111-12). Writing three decades ago, Jesse Shera's (1965) call for cataloguing schemes that reflect contemporary divisions in the enterprise and his sensitivity to the material dimensions of growth were roughly contemporaneous with Machlup (1962) on the economics of knowledge and presaged the more broadly gauged Rescher (1979) on cogni? tive systematization. Though ignorant of Shera's precedent, the first philosophical book explicitly devoted to episte? (Fuller 1988) had largely this ori? entation, but its theoretical basis was in recent philosophy, history, and sociology of science. Contrary to expectations, social episte? mology has yet to find much favor in soci? ology, including most sociology of science. Five rather different reasons may be of? fered:

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