Publisher's Synopsis
It may be said that no other industry has had as significant an effect on the social and technological history of the 20th century as the oil industry. It may also be said that that which significantly affects social and technological history tends to affect the human condition and human concepts. Knowledge is a human concept and as such is not immune from such change. Despite this plausible suggestion, epistemologists have not paid close attention to social and technological history and have instead searched for general principles that govern when we should say that someone knows something (or, alternatively, when it is the case that someone knows something).
