 A general overview of these different kinds of cases was advanced in a wide-ranging monograph by Alvin Goldman: Knowledge in a Social World (1999). This book emerged from several earlier papers critiquing postmodernist attacks on truth and the prospects of truth acquisition. They included papers on argumentation (Goldman 1994), freedom of speech (Goldman and Cox 1996), and scientific inquiry (Goldman 1987). Other contributions with broadly similar orientations included C.A.J. Coady’s Testimony (1992), Edward Craig’s Knowledge and the State of Nature (1990), and Philip Kitcher’s “The Division of Cognitive Labor” (1990) and The Advancement of Science (1993). Margaret Gilbert’s monograph On Social Facts (1989) made a forceful case for the existence of “plural subjects”, a crucial metaphysical component for social epistemology. The journal Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology (Goldman, editor), was begun in 2004 and played a major role in the positive development of the field. (A different journal with a similar title, Social Epistemology (Steve Fuller, editor) began somewhat earlier in 1988, but tilted heavily toward a debunking orientation).