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Refurbishing Epistemology : A Meta-Epistemological Framework / Dominique Kuenzle.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Epistemic Studies : Philosophy of Science, Cognition and Mind ; 35Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 256 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110519419
  • 9783110524659
  • 9783110525458
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: Retooling the Epistemic Workshop -- 1. Towards a New Meta-Epistemology -- 2. What Is “Meta-Epistemology”? -- 3. Epistemic States and Performances -- 4. Varieties of Norm-Talk -- 5. Epistemic Evaluations and Concepts -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index
Summary: Even though important developments within 20th and 21st century philosophy have widened the scope of epistemology, this has not yet resulted in a systematic meta-epistemological debate about epistemology’s aims, methods, and criteria of success. Ideas such as the methodology of reflective equilibrium, the proposal to "naturalize" epistemology, constructivist impulses fuelling the "sociology of scientific knowledge", pragmatist calls for taking into account the practical point of epistemic evaluations, as well as feminist criticism of the abstract and individualist assumptions built into traditional epistemology are widely discussed, but they have not typically resulted in the call for, let alone the construction of, a suitable meta-epistemological framework.This book motivates and elaborates such a new meta-epistemology. It provides a pragmatist, social and functionalist account of epistemic states that offers the conceptual space for revised or even replaced epistemic concepts. This is what it means to "refurbish epistemology": The book assesses conceptual tools in relation to epistemology’s functionally defined conceptual space, responsive to both intra-epistemic considerations and political and moral values.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: Retooling the Epistemic Workshop -- 1. Towards a New Meta-Epistemology -- 2. What Is “Meta-Epistemology”? -- 3. Epistemic States and Performances -- 4. Varieties of Norm-Talk -- 5. Epistemic Evaluations and Concepts -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index

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Even though important developments within 20th and 21st century philosophy have widened the scope of epistemology, this has not yet resulted in a systematic meta-epistemological debate about epistemology’s aims, methods, and criteria of success. Ideas such as the methodology of reflective equilibrium, the proposal to "naturalize" epistemology, constructivist impulses fuelling the "sociology of scientific knowledge", pragmatist calls for taking into account the practical point of epistemic evaluations, as well as feminist criticism of the abstract and individualist assumptions built into traditional epistemology are widely discussed, but they have not typically resulted in the call for, let alone the construction of, a suitable meta-epistemological framework.This book motivates and elaborates such a new meta-epistemology. It provides a pragmatist, social and functionalist account of epistemic states that offers the conceptual space for revised or even replaced epistemic concepts. This is what it means to "refurbish epistemology": The book assesses conceptual tools in relation to epistemology’s functionally defined conceptual space, responsive to both intra-epistemic considerations and political and moral values.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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