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• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of tables
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction Is there a problem of or with knowledge?
• 1 Epistemology as cognitive economics
• Social epistemology as the art of cognitive management
• Two kinds of cognitive economy for social epistemology
• The history of epistemology as a struggle over cognitive economy
• The problem of the economic use of knowledge already produced
• Why did our ancestors seem to know so much more than we know now?
• Projecting the future of social epistemology: the proactionary imperative
• 2 Epistemology as divine psychology
• The divine origins of intellectual life
• Secularizing the sacred mind: the centrality of theodicy
• Theism by other means: sociology’s secular problematic
• Why naturalism is too conservative to explain science
• David Hume: naturalist philosopher of diminished expectations
• The need for theism to explain science
• The awkwardness of natural theology in the secular world
• Intelligent design: a “Left Creationist” affirmation of science
• Darwinism’s own anti-humanist theodicy
• Recap: the Creationist Left’s challenge to the science-relision nexus
• 3 Epistemology as psychology of science
• In the beginning the psychologist was the self-conscious scientist
• The genealogy of validity: from the bank to the lab bench
• The need for psychology of science to improve the conduct of science
• Conclusion: how scientific creativity went from being abundant to scarce
• 4 Epistemology as philosophy of science
• By misunderstanding Kuhn, we misunderstand our own times
• Kuhn’s legacy of perscriptive/descriptive confusion
• Popper’s (pre-)challenge to Kuhn and Kuhn’s anti-rationalist response
• Kuhn’s contemporary legacy: the naturalization of consensus in science
• The problem of positioning Popper on his own terms
• The key to Popper: the psychologist who never really left the lab
• The problem of assessing Popper’s philosophical fortunes
• 5 Epistemology as sociology of science
• In search of the “will to science”: from religious inspiration to remunerated research
• Science and expertise: natural bedfellows or mortal enemies?
• Expertise as site for normative recession in analytic social epistemology
• Expertise as site for normative recession in science and technology studies
• Learning from the past to redeem a normatively “fuller” social epistemology
• The challenge ahead: the legacies of Kuhn and Latour as obstacles
• 6 Epistemology as counterfactual historiography
• The complementarity of freedom and determinism in the modern world-view
• Freedom and determinism as a problem of historical perspective
• Possible worlds as the micro-structure of freedom and determinism
• The normative stakes of a flexibly revisable history
• Giving the past back its future: the ultimate test of “giving voice”
• Conclusion Redeeming epistemology from the postmodern condition
• Bibliography
• Index