
Knowledge And Civilization
Barry Allen(Author)
Westview Press Inc
1st Edition
Published on 5. September 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-8133-4135-4 (ISBN)
Description
Knowledge and Civilization advances detailed criticism of philosophy's usual approach to knowledge and describes a redirection, away from textbook problems of epistemology, toward an ecological philosophy of technology and civilization. Rejecting theories that confine knowledge to language or discourse, Allen situates knowledge in the greater field of artifacts, technical performance, and human evolution. His wide ranging considerations draw on ideas from evolutionary biology, archaeology, anthropology, and the history of cities, art, and technology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
513 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-4135-4 (9780813341354)
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Person
Barry Allen received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Princeton University in 1986. He has taught at the University of Chicago and Hebrew University, and is currently Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He is the author of Truth in Philosophy and is an associate editor at the interdisciplinary journal Common Knowledge .
Content
Foreword -- Introduction -- Knowledge -- What Was Epistemology? -- The Art of Knowledge -- Some Philosophers -- Dionysian Epistemology: Nietzsche's Idea of Knowledge -- Stuck in the Order of Discourse: Foucault's Idea of Knowledge -- Turning Back the Linguistic Turn: Rorty's Idea of Knowledge -- Knowledge, Evolution, Civilization -- Evolving Knowledge -- Civilizing Knowledge -- The Ultimate Context