Book contents
- The Transmission of Knowledge
- The Transmission of Knowledge
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Framework Presented
- 3 Joint Agency and the Role of Trust in Testimonial Knowledge
- 4 Social Norms and Social Sensibilities
- 5 A Unified Account of Generation and Transmission
- 6 The Framework Extended
- 7 Education and the Transmission of Understanding
- 8 Reductionism and Big Science
- 9 Social Religious Epistemology
- Appendix: The Garbage Problem
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Social Norms and Social Sensibilities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 August 2020
- The Transmission of Knowledge
- The Transmission of Knowledge
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Framework Presented
- 3 Joint Agency and the Role of Trust in Testimonial Knowledge
- 4 Social Norms and Social Sensibilities
- 5 A Unified Account of Generation and Transmission
- 6 The Framework Extended
- 7 Education and the Transmission of Understanding
- 8 Reductionism and Big Science
- 9 Social Religious Epistemology
- Appendix: The Garbage Problem
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 4 develops the information economy framework further by exploring two of its essential elements. In particular, the chapter further explores the nature of social environments and social-cognitive abilities. One central idea is that social environments are “layered” in ways that create various kinds of transmission channels. In particular, social environments are shaped in part by (a) interpersonal relationships, (b) social norms, (c) institutional rules, and (d) positive law. These various dimensions constitute a kind of “social space” that practical-cognitive agents must navigate. Such space is also “contoured,” in ways that affect the flow of information. A related idea is that practical-cognitive agents must embody various social-cognitive capacities, including linguistic capacities, mind-reading capacities, and what one might call “social sensibilities”; that is, awareness of one’s location in social space.
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- The Transmission of Knowledge , pp. 68 - 86Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020