ABSTRACT
In the Preface of his seminal Knowledge in a Social World, Goldman (1999) wrote:
Traditional epistemology has long preserved the Cartesian image of inquiry as an activity of isolated thinkers, each pursuing truth in a spirit of individualism and pure self-reliance. This image ignores the interpersonal and institutional contexts in which most knowledge endeavors are actually undertaken. Epistemology must come to grips with the social interactions that both brighten and threaten the prospect for knowledge, (p. vii)
