Shifting ground : knowledge and reality, transgression and trustworthiness /
This volume of essays by Naomi Scheman brings together her views on epistemic and socio-political issues, views that draw on a critical reading of Wittgenstein as well as on liberatory movements and theories, all in the service of a fundamental reorientation of epistemology. For some theorists, epis...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2011.
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| Series: | Studies in feminist philosophy.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This volume of essays by Naomi Scheman brings together her views on epistemic and socio-political issues, views that draw on a critical reading of Wittgenstein as well as on liberatory movements and theories, all in the service of a fundamental reorientation of epistemology. For some theorists, epistemology is an essentially foundationalist and hence discredited enterprise; for others-particularly analytic epistemologists--it remains rigorously segregated from political concerns. Scheman makes a compelling case for the necessity of thinking epistemologically in fundamentally altered ways. Argu. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 251 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199745630 0199745633 9780190267483 0190267488 1283168383 9781283168380 9786613168382 6613168386 |