conditioning of knowledge with the reasoning that a knowledge claim's validity is restricted by the social conditions with regard to which the claim was initially made. Present and future concerns In both stages, both varieties of social epistemology remain largely "academic" or "theoretical" projects. Yet both emphasize the social significance of knowledge and therefore the cultural value of social epistemology itself. A range of journals publishing social epistemology welcome papers that include a policy dimension. More practical applications of social epistemology can be found in the areas of library science, academic publishing, guidelines for scientific authorship and collaboration, knowledge policy and debates over the role of the Internet in knowledge transmission and creation. Social epistemology is still considered a relatively new addition to philosophy, with its problems and theories still fresh and in rapid movement. Of increasing importance is social epistemology developments within transdisciplinarity as manifested by media ecology. See also Bayesian epistemology Epistemology Feminist epistemology Knowledge falsification Sociology of knowledge Social constructionism Social philosophy Reflexivity (social theory) Media ecology Notes References Berlin, James A. Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies, Indiana: Parlor Press, 2003. Egan, Margaret and Jesse Shera. 1952. "Foundations of a Theory of Bibliography." Library Quarterly 44:125-37. Goldman, Alvin; Blanchard, Thomas (2016-01-01). Zalta, Edward N., ed. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2016 ed.). Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Goldman, Alvin,. "Social Epistemology". stanford.library.sydney.edu.au. Retrieved 2017-02-22. Longino, Helen. 1990. Science as Social Knowledge. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Longino, Helen. 2001. The Fate of Knowledge. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Remedios, Francis. 2003. Legitimizing Scientific Knowledge: An Introduction to Steve Fuller’s Social Epistemology. Lexington Books. Rimkutė, Audronė (2014-09-28). "The Problem of Social Knowledge in Contemporary Social Epistemology: Two Approaches". Problemos (in Lithuanian). 0 (65): 4–19. doi:10.15388/Problemos.2004.65.6645. ISSN 1392-1126. Schmitt, Frederick F. 1994. Socializing Epistemology. Rowman & Littlefield. Schmitt, Frederick F.; Scholz, Oliver R. (2010-02-01). "Introduction: The History of Social Epistemology". Episteme. 7 (1): 1–6. doi:10.3366/E174236000900077X. ISSN 1750-0117. Solomon, Miriam. 2001. Social Empricism. Cambridge: MIT Press. Further reading "What Is Social Epistemology? A Smorgasbord of projects", in Pathways to Knowledge: Private and Public, Oxford University Press, Pg:182-204, "Relativism, Rationalism and the Sociology of Knowledge", Barry Barnes and David Bloor, in Rationality and Relativism, Pg:22 Social Epistemology, Steve Fuller, Indiana University Press, p. 3. External links The journal Social Epistemology Interdisciplinary subfields of sociology Epistemology Philosophy of science Social philosophy