Making space for knowing : a capacious approach to comparative epistemology

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    • Creller, Aaron B.

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Making space for knowing : a capacious approach to comparative epistemology

Aaron B. Creller

(Studies in comparative philosophy and religion)

Lexington Books, c2018

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-153) and indexes

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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.

Table of Contents

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

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  • NCID
    BB28154238
  • ISBN
    • 9781498547086
  • LCCN
    2017048264
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    engchi
  • Place of Publication
    Lanham, Md.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xv, 159 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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