The Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge: Consensus, Controversy, and Coproduction

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The Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge: Consensus, Controversy, and Coproduction
	Contents
	1 Introduction
	2 The Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge
		2.1 Scientific Knowledge: Propositional and True?
		2.2 Scientific Knowledge: Distributed and Communal
		2.3 The Arguments for the Epistemic Dependence Thesis
		2.4 Value-Ladenness and Pragmatic Encroachment
	3 A Conception of Individual and Collective Scientific Knowledge
		3.1 Agential versus Nonagential Accounts of Collective Knowledge
		3.2 Longino’s Account of Collective and Individual Knowledge
		3.3 A Full Conception of Collective and Individual
Scientific Knowledge
	4 Assessing a Scientific Consensus for Knowledge and Dealing with Dissent
		4.1 The Problem of Legitimate Knowledge Attribution
		4.2 “Do Your Own Research”
		4.3 “Trust the Science”
		4.4 Assess Whether a Scientific Consensus Is Knowledge Based
		4.5 The Epistemic Importance of Social Diversity
		4.6 Appropriate and Inappropriate Scientific Dissent
		4.7 Conclusion
	5 The Interaction of Epistemic and Social Elements in the Coproduction of Knowledge
		5.1 Ontological Projection
		5.2 Social Values Affect Representation Decisions
		5.3 Social Values Fill the Gap of Underdetermination
of Theory by Evidence
		5.4 Social Values Adjust Evidential Weights
		5.5 Social and Epistemic Elements Legitimate Each Other
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Acknowledgments