[Asis-l] new journal "Episteme" from Edinburgh University Press

[Garfield, Eugene]

"Episteme" is a new journal of social epistemology, which 
focuses on the social dimensions of knowledge, says Anthony 
Quinton, a former president of the University of Oxford's 
Trinity College and a fellow of its New College and All Souls 
College.

"Social epistemology arose from the recognition that nearly all 
that we believe or claim to know is secondhand and derived from 
the speech or writing of others," he writes.

Two styles of social epistemology, the analytical and critical 
approaches, are represented in "Episteme."

Analytical social epistemology grapples with questions like how 
facts presented by other people can ever be satisfactorily 
verified, while critical social epistemology examines fields 
like science and history as social constructions, in other 
words, as things that are "brought into existence by human 
social activity, like government and the family and unlike 
mountains and icebergs," Mr. Quinton says.

"'Episteme' is not the first journal to take social epistemology 
as its theme," he writes, "but it is the first, I think, to try 
to bring the two kinds of epistemology I have distinguished 
together."

The journal will be published three times a year, by Edinburgh 
University Press. Information about the journal is available at 
http://www.episteme.eu.com

 
 




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