Knowledge and Epistemic Obligation

Epistemic Obligations: Truth, Individual

📁 Epistemic Obligations: Truth, Individualism, and the Limits of Belief

✍ Bruce R. Reichenbach 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 Baylor University Press 🌐 English

Questions of belief, and agency over personal belief, abound as individuals claim to have the right to believe whatever they so choose. In a carefully constructed argument, Bruce Reichenbach contends that while individuals have direct control over belief, they are obligated to believe--and purpos

Knowledge - Genetic Foundations and Epis

📁 Knowledge - Genetic Foundations and Epistemic Coherence

✍ Birte Schelling 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 De Gruyter 🌐 English

Since the 1960s there is a controversial discussion about the correct explication of the concept of knowledge in epistemology, but until today no generally accepted solution to the problem of defining this concept has been found. This book contributes to the discussion in epistemology by proposin

Colonial and Decolonial Linguistics: Kno

📁 Colonial and Decolonial Linguistics: Knowledges and Epistemes

✍ Ana Deumert (editor), Anne Storch (editor), Nick Shepherd (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2021 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

This wide-ranging volume offers a detailed exploration of coloniality in the discipline of linguistics, with case studies drawn from Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean. Colonial meanings and legacies have returned to the forefront of many academic fields in recent years and ling

Knowledge and Ethics in Anthropology: Ob

📁 Knowledge and Ethics in Anthropology: Obligations and Requirements

✍ Josephides, Lisette 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Bloomsbury Academic 🌐 English

Inspired by the work of world-renowned anthropologist Marilyn Strathern, this collection of essays features contributions from a range of internationally recognized scholars – including Strathern herself – which examine a range of methodologies and approaches to the anthropology of knowledge.

Knowledge and Ethics in Anthropology: Ob

📁 Knowledge and Ethics in Anthropology: Obligations and Requirements

✍ Lisette Josephides (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Bloomsbury Academic 🌐 English

Inspired by the work of world-renowned anthropologist Marilyn Strathern, this collection of essays features contributions from a range of internationally recognized scholars – including Strathern herself – which examine a range of methodologies and approaches to the anthropology of knowledge. The bo

Epistemic Fluency and Professional Educa

📁 Epistemic Fluency and Professional Education: Innovation, Knowledgeable Action and Actionable Knowledge

✍ Lina Markauskaite, Peter Goodyear (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English

This book, by combining sociocultural, material, cognitive and embodied perspectives on human knowing, offers a new and powerful conceptualisation of epistemic fluency – a capacity that underpins knowledgeable professional action and innovation. Using results from empirical studies of professiona