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Making Space for Knowing : A Capacious Approach to Comparative Epistemology

By Aaron B. Creller

Book information

Publisher
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Year
2017
ISBN
9781498547093, 9781498547086
LCC
BD161 .C685 2018
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2477666 bytes)
Series
Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion Series
Pages
177\0
Time added
2023-08-19 15:20:58
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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.

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