This volume contains contributions to the "systematic study of knowledge." They suggest both an extension and a new path for classical epistemology. The topics in the first volume are the following: concepts and forms of knowledge, epistemic perspectivism, knowledge and world-views, perceptual knowledge, scientific knowledge, models in science, distributed and integrated knowledge, interaction of forms of knowledge, and relation between forms of knowledge and forms of representation.
Rethinking Epistemology 1 Unauthenticated Download Date | 5/14/16 9:44 PM Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research Edited by Günter Abel and James Conant Volume 1 De Gruyter Unauthenticated Download Date | 5/14/16 9:44 PM Rethinking Epistemology Volume 1 Edited by Günter Abel and James Conant De Gruyter Unauthenticated Download Date | 5/14/16 9:44 PM Editors Prof. Dr. Günter Abel Technische Universität Berlin Institut für Philosophie Straße des 17. Juni 135 10623 Berlin Germany e-mail:
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[email protected] ISBN 978-3-11-025356-6 e-ISBN 978-3-11-025357-3 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rethinking epistemology / edited by Günter Abel and James Conant. p. cm. Q (Berlin studies in knowledge research ; v. 1) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-3-11-025356-6 (v. 1 : hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-3-11-027782-1 (v. 2 : hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Knowledge, Theory of. I. Abel, Günter. II. Conant, James. BD161.R4837 2011 121Qdc23 2011035235 Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. 쑔 2012 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston Printing: Hubert & Co. GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen ⬁ Printed on acid-free paper Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com Unauthenticated Download Date | 5/14/16 9:44 PM Foreword The present volume is the first of two volumes which together form a single publication which seeks to introduce a variety of new approaches to current problems in epistemology. Taken together the two volumes are the starting volumes of the Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research series. They are intended to open the series and indicate some of the variety of topics to which the subsequent forthcoming volumes will each be individually devoted. As the title which these volumes jointly bear – Rethinking Epistemology – indicates, their shared aim is to identify important topics in the theory of knowledge which have either been unduly neglected in recent philosophy or whose consequences for other areas of epistemology in particular and philosophy more generally have tended to remain unappreciated. This is therefore also the central aim of the present volume as well as one of the central aims of the entire series which this pair of volumes seeks to indicate. The series as a whole is animated by a number of subsidiary aims as well. It is closely associated, both in its selection of topics and its overall philosophical orientation, with the projects promoted by the Innovationszentrum Wissensforschung (IZW), or Center for Knowledge Research, at the Technische Universität Berlin. The goal of both the Center and the series is to foster systematic research into the variety of forms of knowledge that there are, as well as to unc