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Understanding the Tacit

By Stephen P. Turner

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
ISBN
041570944X, 9780415709446
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1403232 bytes)
Series
Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought 81
Pages
246\247
Time added
2014-07-01 18:53:18

Description

This book outlines a new account of the tacit, meaning tacit knowledge, presuppositions, practices, traditions, and so forth. It includes essays on topics such as underdetermination and mutual understanding, and critical discussions of the major alternative approaches to the tacit, including Bourdieu’s habitus and various practice theories, Oakeshott’s account of tradition, Quentin Skinner’s theory of historical meaning, Harry Collins’s idea of collective tacit knowledge, as well as discussions of relevant cognitive science concepts, such as non-conceptual content, connectionism, and mirror neurons. The new account of tacit knowledge focuses on the fact that in making the tacit explicit, a person is not, as many past accounts have supposed, reading off the content of some sort of shared and fixed tacit scheme of presuppositions, but rather responding to the needs of the Other for understanding.

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