ABSTRACT
Epistemologists have traditionally busied themselves with trying to provide an accurate account of what knowledge is, tracing out its relations to concepts such as belief, truth, justification, evidence, and certainty, among others. They have also often been interested in how knowledge is produced and maintained, and what interpersonal relationships and social structures are required for knowledge to exist and to grow. And some contemporary epistemologists pursue this interest in knowledge's personal, structural, and social preconditions even further, into the investigation of clashes between different and diverging efforts to claim knowledge, to enforce one's claims, and to assess the claims of others.
