Real Knowing : : New Versions of the Coherence Theory /

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

"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 ana...

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

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