The Third Way: Reflections on Helen Longino’s The Fate of Knowledge*
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Helen Longino’s The Fate of Knowledge offers a positive view of how to integrate social considerations into epistemology, as well as a diagnosis of the failures of previous efforts. I suggest that Longino’s positive account is interesting and fruitful, although her favorite version of pluralism seems unclear and unmotivated. I also argue that her attempt to distinguish her own views from earlier ventures in social epistemology suffers from obsession with an allegedly pervasive Rational-Social dichotomy. This defect doesn’t interfere with the insights of her positive proposals.
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