ABSTRACT
Epistemology must seek better to understand the expansions and the contractions, the booms and the slumps, in the generation of knowledge. It must seek to identify what contributes to the growth of knowledge, and what stands in its way. It must seek to understand the principles underlying the competition of ideas in the marketplace of ideas, and to identify ideas and institutions that do, and that could, contribute to such a competitive market, and those that hinder it . . .
