Real Knowing : : New Versions of the Coherence Theory / / Linda Martín Alcoff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Alcoff, Linda Martín,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)

"Real" knowing always involves a political dimension, Linda Martín Alcoff suggests. But this does not mean we need to give up realism or the possibility of truth. Recent work in continental philosophy insists on the influence that power and desire exert on knowing, whereas contemporary analytic philosophy largely ignores these political concerns in its accounts of justification and truth. Alcoff engages these traditionally conflicting approaches in a constructive dialogue, effectively spanning the analytic/continental divide.In provocative readings of major figures in the continental tradition, Alcoff shows that the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Michel Foucault can help rectify key problems in coherence epistemology, such as the link between coherence and truth. She also argues that discussions about knowledge among continental philosophers can benefit from the work of analytic philosophers Donald Davidson and Hilary Putnam on meaning and ontology. Alcoff makes a compelling case for the need to address truth as a metaphysical issue, in contrast to minimalist tendencies in Anglo-American philosophy and deconstructionism on the continent. Her work persuasively argues for coherentist epistemology as a more realistic reconfiguration of the ontology of truth.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Why Coherence? Why Epistemology? -- CHAPTER ONE "Allowing what is to be ... ": Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics -- CHAPTER TWO. "The relationship is primary ... ": Hermeneutics as Epistemology -- CHAPTER THREE. "No man is the lord of anything ... ": Davidson's Charitable Truth -- CHAPTER FOUR. "The 'games of truth' ... ": Foucault's Knowledge -- CHAPTER FIVE. "A new politics of truth ... ": Power/Knowledge as Strategic Epistemology -- CHAPTER SIX. "A human kind of realism ... ": Putnam's Immanent Ontology -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Coherence in Context -- Index