Knowledge in a Social World

"KNOWLEDGE IN A SOCIAL WORLD by Alvin I. Goldman is one of the most recent contributions to the [information] field, and a very welcome one too....Goldman offers a normative analysis of the conditions under which different intersubjective and institutional epistemic practices can satisfy veritistic, that is, truth-oriented, goals within an information-based society, and thus enhance the development of true beliefs, where truth is understood as correspondence between beliefs and the external world....[Yet he] will discover there [is] plenty of evidence that truth is actually a very delicate ideal, often disregarded if not trampled upon, and that unfortunately other powerful forces substantiate, shape and regulate the infosphere that we inhabit."Goldman, Alvin I. is the author of 'Knowledge in a Social World' with ISBN 9780198238201 and ISBN 0198238207.