1st Edition
Epistemic Systems in Action Testosterone, Disagreement, and Expertise
By Sophie Juliane Veigl
Copyright 2027
304 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
This book challenges traditional epistemological frameworks by developing a de-idealized account of epistemic systems that centers on knowledge practices rather than abstract principles alone. It develops an epistemic agent-based account of epistemic systems that incorporates the social, political, and ontological dimensions of knowledge production.
The book addresses critical gaps in current... Read more
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1693347403" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{103}">TABLE OF CONTENTS
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1517973033" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{109}">Acknowledgements
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="746047414" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{111}">1 Introduction
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="804905614" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{113}">2 Introducing Testosterone
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="804905614" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{113}">2.1 Making Masculinity Hormonal
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="241713613" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{117}">2.2 Replacing Testosterone, Displacing Masculinity?
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1982057773" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{119}">2.3 Conclusion<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1901015570" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{121}">3 Tracing Knowledge about Testosterone
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1147843418" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{123}">3.1 Empirical Epistemology
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="2008038844" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{125}">3.2 Material and Methods
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1722095126" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{127}">3.3 Results
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="2034983434" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{129}">3.3.1 Responsible Knowers – What it Takes to Take Testosterone
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="638723772" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{131}">3.3.2 Learning by Doing – Expertiential Expertise
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="51289639" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{133}">3.3.3 Beyond Individuality – Learning from Others
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="822037852" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{135}">3.3.4 Forms of Knoweldge – Types of Evidence
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="837391264" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{137}">3.3.5 Relating to Other Knowers
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1096413789" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{139}">3.3.6 Testosterone Magic
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="247447076" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{141}">3.3.7 Easy Users
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1296858884" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{143}">3.3.8 Contesting Masculinity through Testosterone
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1830387537" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{145}">3.4 Conclusion<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="636393890" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{147}">4 Epistemic Systems: From Principles to Agents
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1891505414" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{149}">4.1 Approaching Epistemic Systems
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1902528057" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{151}">4.2 Three Problems of Epistemic Systems
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1004599481" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{153}">4.2.1 Instance
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1627742434" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{155}">4.2.2 Derive
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="937463942" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{157}">4.2.3 Anthropology
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1297907241" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{159}">4.2.4 Resumé
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1626696538" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{161}">4.3 Ideal and Non-Ideal Epistemology
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1732000277" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{163}">4.4 De-idealizing Epistemic Systems
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1808003668" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{165}">4.5 Towards an Epistemic Agent-Based Account of Epistemic Systems
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="568100867" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{167}">4.6 Consequences<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="707077751" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{169}">5 Making Epistemic Systems Political
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="664772889" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{171}">5.1 Epistemic Systems as Grid/Group Configurations
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="414219376" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{173}">5.2 Knowledge, Epistemic Power, and Epistemic Oppression
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="309307219" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{175}">5.3 Politicizing Epistemic Systems
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1653377807" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{177}">5.4 Changing Epistemic Systems (for the better)<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="400016016" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{179}">6 Assembling Epistemic Systems
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="384681153" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{181}">6.1 From Common Ground to Ontologies
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="2013170965" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{183}">6.2 On Reference Domains
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="411642332" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{185}">6.3 Assembling Epistemic Systems around Reference Domains
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="645668397" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{187}">6.4 Recap: The Social, Political, and Ontological Dimensions of Epistemic Systems<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="418467477" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{189}">7 Rethinking Fundamental Disagreement through Epistemic Power
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="295793214" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{191}">7.1 Disagreeing about Testosterone
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="686582544" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{193}">7.2 Fundamental Disagreements Revisited
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="108763973" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{195}">7.3 Asymmetrical Situated Judgments
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="713649565" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{197}">7.4 A Political Anatomy of Disagreeing about Testosterone<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="319250678" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{199}">8 The Ethics of Expertise – Are Testosterone Users Experts
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="295584770" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{201}">8.1 Expertise, Plurality, and Science under Attack
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1975988335" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{203}">8.2 An Epistemic Agent-Based Account of Expertise
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1724741440" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{205}">8.3 Expertise, Normativity, and Ethics
<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="2062592776" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{207}">8.4 Conclusion<p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="1861050835" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{209}">9 Conclusion <p xml:lang="EN-US" lang="EN-US" paraid="404886422" paraeid="{88cee6d7-040a-42d3-961b-66c27b1660af}{211}">Index
Biography
Sophie Juliane Veigl is a senior lecturer in philosophy of science and technology at the department of Philosophy, University of Vienna. She works at the intersection of philosophy of science, feminist philosophy, and epistemology. She is the co-editor of Methods in Philosophy of Science – A user’s guide.
“This book offers a compelling challenge to abstract theorizing by grounding epistemology in real knowledge practices and power relations. Drawing on qualitative interviews about testosterone use across medical practitioners, users, and sports contexts, it highlights the messy realities of knowledge practices and develops an agent-based account of epistemic systems that attends to the power dynamics within knowledge production. It also combines insights from feminist epistemology and the sociology of scientific knowledge to provide fresh insights into the epistemology of disagreement and expertise. Researchers across disciplines will find it an invaluable resource for understanding and critiquing contemporary forms of knowledge production.”
Robin McKenna, University of Liverpool, UK
