Shifting ground : knowledge and reality, transgression and trustworthiness / Naomi Scheman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scheman, Naomi, author.

Series:

Studies in feminist philosophy.

Studies in feminist philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Transgression (Ethics).

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 251 pages).

Other Title:

Knowledge and reality, transgression and trustworthiness

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume of chapters brings together the text's views on epistemic and socio-political issues, views that draw on a critical reading of Wittgenstein as well as on liberatory movements and theories, all in the service of a fundamental reorientation of epistemology. For some theorists, epistemology is an essentially foundationalist and hence discredited enterprise; for others—particularly analytic epistemologists—it remains rigorously segregated from political concerns. The text makes a compelling case for the necessity of thinking epistemologically in fundamentally altered ways. Arguing that it is an illusion of privilege to think that we can do without usable articulations of concepts such as truth, reality, and objectivity, it maintains (as in the title of one of her chapters) that epistemology needs to be “resuscitated” as an explicitly political endeavor, with trustworthiness at its heart.

Contents:

Non-negotiable demands : metaphysics, politics, and the discourse of needs

Feminist epistemology

On waking up one morning and discovering that we are them

Terminal moraine

Against physicalism

Feeling our way toward moral objectivity

Queering the center by centering the queer : reflections on transsexuals and secular Jews

Forms of life : mapping the rough ground

The trustworthiness of research : the paradigm of community-based research (co-authored with Catherine Jordan and Susan Gust)

Narrative, complexity, and context : autonomy as an epistemic value

Epistemology resuscitated : objectivity as trustworthiness.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-026748-8

1-283-16838-3

9786613168382

0-19-974563-3

OCLC:

741614797