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Socializing Epistemology: The Social Dimensions of Knowledge
In this wide-ranging collection of never before published essays, distinguished scholars in the fields of philosophy and economics examine such questions as whether testimony is a basic source of knowledge, the degree to which notions of a good argument are … Continue reading
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Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and Decolonial Freedom
Once upon a time scholars assumed that the knowing subject in the disciplines is transparent, disincorporated from the known and untouched by the geo-political configuration of the world in which people are racially ranked and regions are racially configured. From … Continue reading
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Native Epistemology and Embodied Cognitive Theory
In this chapter, I delve into the intersection of phenomenological embodiment and embodied cognition as developed by Mark Johnson and George Lakoff to help set up the frame that I construct to demonstrate the philosophical relationship between dance and Native … Continue reading
Posted in Critical social epistemology, Embodied cognition, Epistemology, Native Epistemology, Social epistemology
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Epistemological Problems of Perception
The central problem in the epistemology of perception is that of explaining how perception could give us knowledge or justified belief about an external world, about things outside of ourselves. This problem has traditionally been viewed in terms of a … Continue reading
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Conceptualising Violence as a Problem of Epistemology
This chapter presents the idea that the underlying cause of violence is a specific type of epistemology which the author terms ‘violent epistemology’. The chapter presents a detailed a conceptual framework for understanding the specific cognitive mechanisms comprising violent epistemology, … Continue reading
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Extended cognition meets epistemology
This article examines the intersection of the theory of extended mind/cognition and theory of knowledge. In the minds of some, it matters to conditions for knowing whether the mind extends beyond the boundaries of body and brain. I examine these intuitions and find … Continue reading
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Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide
In a world of appalling social inequalities people are becoming more aware of the multiple dimensions of injustice, whether social, political, cultural, sexual, ethnic, religious, historical, or ecological. Rarely acknowledged is another vital dimension: cognitive injustice, the failure to recognize … Continue reading
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Sociobiology and Epistemology
The papers presented in this special collection focus upon conceptual, theoretical and epistemological aspects of sociobiology, an emerging discipline that deals with the extent to which genetic factors influence or control patterns of behavior as well as the extent to … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Epistemology, Evolution, Social, Sociobiology
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Stigmergic Epistemology, Stigmergic Cognition
To know is to cognize, to cognize is to be a culturally bounded, rationality-bounded and environmentally located agent. Knowledge and cognition are thus dual aspects of human sociality. If social epistemology has the formation, acquisition, mediation, transmission and dissemination of … Continue reading
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The Epistemological Meaning of Luhmann’s Critique of Classical Ontology
This paper is a discussion of the sustainability of a concept of World compatible with the “operative constructivism” and the operative conception of observation of the Theory of Systems, according to Niklas Luhmann. The paper scrutinizes the concepts of observation … Continue reading
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