Making space for knowing : a capacious approach to comparative epistemology / Aaron B. Creller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Creller, Aaron B., author.

Series:

Studies in comparative philosophy and religion.

Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (159 pages).

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The historical narrative of contemporary conceptions of analytic knowledge

Contemporary analytic epistemology and the problem of justification

The hermeneutic structure of knowing

Classical Chinese Zhi and a capacious theory of knowledge

Best practices in comparative epistemology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4985-4709-5