From Cognition to Being : Prolegomena for Teachers / / Henry Davis McHenry.

In this book, McHenry challenges the still-regnant paradigm of knowledge acquisition as the end and means of schooling, supplanting it with an inquiry into what knowledge is. Tracing the development of the idea of knowledge from its roots in Descartes and Locke through the ontological turn in Wittge...

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Place / Publishing House:Ottawa : : University of Ottawa Press,, 1999.
©1999.
Year of Publication:1999
Language:English
Series:Mentor (Ottawa, Ont.) ; no. 2.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 189 pages) :; illustrations.
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • PART I: EPISTEMOLOGY: What Is Knowing, and How Do We Know?
  • 1. OUR PICTURE OF LANGUAGE
  • 2. CARTESIAN DOUBT
  • 3. LOCKEAN CERTAINTY
  • 4. WITTGENSTEIN'S INQUIRY INTO STRUCTURE
  • PART II: ONTOLOGY: What Is Saying, and How Do We Be?
  • 5. OUR LISTENING WITH LANGUAGE
  • 6. LANGUAGING AS SHARING
  • 7. HERMENEUTIC CIRCLING AND THE PRAGMATIC ONTOLOGY OF ENCOUNTER.