
Making Space for Knowing
A Capacious Approach to Comparative Epistemology
Aaron B. Creller(Author)
Lexington Books (Publisher)
Published on 20. December 2017
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-1-4985-4708-6 (ISBN)
Description
Making Space for Knowing: A Capacious Approach to Comparative Epistemology is an intervention in mainstream Western epistemology, especially as it relates to theories of knowledge, knowing, and knowers. Through its focus on propositional knowledge, contemporary mainstream epistemology has narrowed the scope of the definition of "knowledge" to a point where it fails to accurately describe the structure of knowing and prevents a genuine understanding of "knowledge" across different contexts and cultures. By drawing on resources in analytic philosophy and hermeneutics, Aaron B. Creller outlines an approach to comparative epistemology that makes space for the particularity of non-Western approaches to knowing. It then further develops this model by engaging with classical Chinese philosophy and twentieth-century Chinese epistemologists, offering a set of best practices for comparative epistemology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
415 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4985-4708-6 (9781498547086)
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Person
Aaron B. Creller is assistant professor at the University of North Florida.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: The Historical Narrative of Contemporary Conceptions of Analytic Knowledge
Chapter Two: Contemporary Analytic Epistemology and the Problem of Justification
Chapter Three: The Hermeneutic Structure of Knowing
Chapter Four: Classical Chinese ? zhi and a Capacious Theory of Knowledge
Chapter Five: Best Practices in Comparative Epistemology
Bibliography
Introduction
Chapter One: The Historical Narrative of Contemporary Conceptions of Analytic Knowledge
Chapter Two: Contemporary Analytic Epistemology and the Problem of Justification
Chapter Three: The Hermeneutic Structure of Knowing
Chapter Four: Classical Chinese ? zhi and a Capacious Theory of Knowledge
Chapter Five: Best Practices in Comparative Epistemology
Bibliography