Knowledge by Agreement
The Programme of Communitarian Epistemology
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 September 2004
- ISBN 9780199251377
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 233x157x17 mm
- Weight 482 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous line drawings 0
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Short description:
Knowledge by Agreement argues for two controversial ideas: that knowledge is a social status (like money or marriage) and that knowledge is primarily the possession of groups rather than individuals. Martin Kusch defends the radical implications of his views: that knowledge is political, and that it varies with communities. Kusch's bold approach to epistemology is a challenge to philosophy and will arouse interest in the wider academic world.
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Knowledge by Agreement defends the ideas that knowledge is a social status (like money, or marriage), and that knowledge is primarily the possession of groups rather than individuals. Part I develops a new theory of testimony. It breaks with the traditional view according to which testimony is not, except accidentally, a generative source of knowledge. One important consequence of the new theory is a rejection of attempts to globally justify trust in the words of others. Part II proposes a communitarian theory of empirical knowledge. Martin Kusch argues that empirical belief can acquire the status of knowledge only by being shared with others, and that all empirical beliefs presuppose social institutions. As a result all knowledge is essentially political. Part III defends some of the controversial premises and consequences of Parts I and II: the community-dependence of normativity, epistemological and semantic relativism, anti-realism, and a social conception of objectivity.
Martin Kusch's bold approach to epistemology is a challenge to philosophy and will arouse interest in the wider academic world.
Kusch's work admirably advances the common cause of genuinely social epistemology.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Questions and Positions
The Limits of Testimony
Inferentialism - Pro and Contra
The Global Justification of Testimony
Testimony in Communitarian Epistemology
Summary
Questions about Rationality
Foundationalism and Coherentism
Direct Realism and Reliabilism
Consensualism and Interpretationalism
Contextualism and Communitarianism
Summary
Beyond Epistemology
Normativity and Community
Meaning Finitism
Truth
Reality
Objectivity
Relativism
Summary
Epilogue
References, Index
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