The Unity of Knowledge and Action
Toward a Nonrepresentational Theory of Knowledge
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2012
280 pages
978-0-7914-8866-9 (ISBN)
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Uses the thought of Wang Yang-ming, John Dewey, and Alfred North Whitehead to explain a more coherent theory of knowledge.
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Warren G. Frisina is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Hofstra University.
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Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. Preliminary Remarks 1. Knowledge and the Self: Charles Taylor's Sources of the Self 2. Antirepresentationalism in Late- and Postanalytic Philosophy: Donald Davidson and Richard Rorty 3. Minds, Bodies, and Consciousness: Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained PART II. Preliminary Remarks 4. Are Knowledge and Action Really One Thing? Wang Yang-ming's Doctrine of Mind 5. Knowledge as Active, Aesthetic, and Hypothetical: The Relationship between Dewey's Metaphysics and Epistemology 6. A Pragmatic Interpretation of Whitehead's Cosmology PART III. Preliminary Remarks 7. Minds, Bodies, Experience, Nature: Is Panpsychism Really Dead? 8. Heaven's Partners or Nietzschean Free Spirits? 9. Knowledge, Action, and the Organicist Turn Notes Works Cited Index
