"Social epistemology": new problems, discussions and dichotomies
The present work is the prepublication from the book «Domestic philosophy of 50-80th years of the X X-th century and the western thought». It adjoins the sections of the book devoted to summarising of development of such disciplinary directions traditional for the X X- th century as knowledge sociology, sociology of a science and to the problems of understanding of corresponding ideas and researches in domestic thought. «Social epistemology» is one of later, in comparison with named, directions and the disciplinary research areas of the western thought few known to domestic readers. Its main representatives — E.Goldman, D.Blur, S.Fuller, Fr. Schmitt and others. In work following themes are analyzed: a subject and problems social epistimology as they in certain unity, but often and differently, dispute with each other, are defined by representatives of this direction; dichotomies “individual” and “social”, «individual and group» knowledge and knowledge; the theory of corresponding (aggregated) judgements (Chr. List); some actual empirical researches devoted to the cognitive social communicative aspects of activity of institutions, structures of a modern society