Epistemic Systems in Action

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 Introducing Testosterone

2.1 Making Masculinity Hormonal

2.2 Replacing Testosterone, Displacing Masculinity?

2.3 Conclusion

3 Tracing Knowledge about Testosterone

3.1 Empirical Epistemology

3.2 Material and Methods

3.3 Results

3.3.1 Responsible Knowers â" What it Takes to Take Testosterone

3.3.2 Learning by Doing â" Expertiential Expertise

3.3.3 Beyond Individuality â" Learning from Others

3.3.4 Forms of Knoweldge â" Types of Evidence

3.3.5 Relating to Other Knowers

3.3.6 Testosterone Magic

3.3.7 Easy Users

3.3.8 Contesting Masculinity through Testosterone

3.4 Conclusion

4 Epistemic Systems: From Principles to Agents

4.1 Approaching Epistemic Systems

4.2 Three Problems of Epistemic Systems

4.2.1 Instance

4.2.2 Derive

4.2.3 Anthropology

4.2.4 Resum©

4.3 Ideal and Non-Ideal Epistemology

4.4 De-idealizing Epistemic Systems

4.5 Towards an Epistemic Agent-Based Account of Epistemic Systems

4.6 Consequences

5 Making Epistemic Systems Political

5.1 Epistemic Systems as Grid/Group Configurations

5.2 Knowledge, Epistemic Power, and Epistemic Oppression

5.3 Politicizing Epistemic Systems

5.4 Changing Epistemic Systems (for the better)

6 Assembling Epistemic Systems

6.1 From Common Ground to Ontologies

6.2 On Reference Domains

6.3 Assembling Epistemic Systems around Reference Domains

6.4 Recap: The Social, Political, and Ontological Dimensions of Epistemic Systems

7 Rethinking Fundamental Disagreement through Epistemic Power

7.1 Disagreeing about Testosterone

7.2 Fundamental Disagreements Revisited

7.3 Asymmetrical Situated Judgments

7.4 A Political Anatomy of Disagreeing about Testosterone

8 The Ethics of Expertise â" Are Testosterone Users Experts

8.1 Expertise, Plurality, and Science under Attack

8.2 An Epistemic Agent-Based Account of Expertise

8.3 Expertise, Normativity, and Ethics

8.4 Conclusion

9 Conclusion

Index