Making Space for Knowing

Aaron B. Creller

doi:10.5771/9781498547093

Making Space for Knowing

A Capacious Approach to Comparative Epistemology

1. Edition 2017

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ISBN print: 978-1-4985-4708-6
ISBN online: 978-1-4985-4709-3
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Abstract

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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i–xvi Preface i–xvi
1–32 1 The Historical Narrative of Contemporary Conceptions of Analytic Knowledge 1–32
33–58 2 Contemporary Analytic Epistemology and the Problem of Justification 33–58
59–92 3 The Hermeneutic Structure of Knowing 59–92
93–128 4 Classical Chinese 知 zhi and a Capacious Theory of Knowledge 93–128
129–148 5 Best Practices in Comparative Epistemology 129–148
149–154 Bibliography 149–154
155–158 Index 155–158
159–159 About the Author 159–159

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