Making Space for Knowing

A Capacious Approach to Comparative Epistemology

Aaron B. Creller

Making Space for Knowing: A Capacious Approach to Comparative Epistemology is an intervention in mainstream Western epistemology, especially as it relates to theories of knowledge, knowing, and knowers. Through its focus on propositional knowledge, contemporary mainstream epistemology has narrowed the scope of the definition of “knowledge” to a point where it fails to accurately describe the structure of knowing and prevents a genuine understanding of “knowledge” across different contexts and cultures. By drawing on resources in analytic philosophy and hermeneutics, Aaron B. Creller outlines an approach to comparative epistemology that makes space for the particularity of non-Western approaches to knowing. It then further develops this model by engaging with classical Chinese philosophy and twentieth-century Chinese epistemologists, offering a set of best practices for comparative epistemology.

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Pages: 176 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

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Series: Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion

Subjects: Philosophy / Mind & Body, History / Asia / General, Philosophy / Comparative Philosophy

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A Capacious Approach to Comparative Epistemology

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Making Space for Knowing: A Capacious Approach to Comparative Epistemology is an intervention in mainstream Western epistemology, especially as it relates to theories of knowledge, knowing, and knowers. Through its focus on propositional knowledge, contemporary mainstream epistemology has narrowed the scope of the definition of “knowledge” to a point where it fails to accurately describe the structure of knowing and prevents a genuine understanding of “knowledge” across different contexts and cultures. By drawing on resources in analytic philosophy and hermeneutics, Aaron B. Creller outlines an approach to comparative epistemology that makes space for the particularity of non-Western approaches to knowing. It then further develops this model by engaging with classical Chinese philosophy and twentieth-century Chinese epistemologists, offering a set of best practices for comparative epistemology.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 176 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-4985-4708-6 • Hardback • December 2017 • $90.00 • (£60.00)

978-1-4985-4709-3 • eBook • December 2017 • $85.50 • (£60.00)

Series: Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion

Subjects: Philosophy / Mind & Body, History / Asia / General, Philosophy / Comparative Philosophy

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Aaron B. Creller is assistant professor at the University of North Florida.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: The Historical Narrative of Contemporary Conceptions of Analytic Knowledge
Chapter Two: Contemporary Analytic Epistemology and the Problem of Justification
Chapter Three: The Hermeneutic Structure of Knowing
Chapter Four: Classical Chinese 知 zhi and a Capacious Theory of Knowledge
Chapter Five: Best Practices in Comparative Epistemology
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Making Space for Knowing

A Capacious Approach to Comparative Epistemology

Aaron B. Creller

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A Capacious Approach to Comparative Epistemology

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