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This volume offers arguments from eastern and western philosophical traditions to enrich and diversify our present conceptions of knowledge. The contributors extend contemporary Western epistemology in novel directions, through investigating and questioning entrenched conceptions of knowledge. The cross-tradition engagement with the neurosciences, psychology, and anthropological studies is an important feature of the volume's methodological approach that helps broaden our epistemological horizons. It presents a collection of perspectives on epistemic agency by engaging philosophical traditions east and west, including Japanese, Buddhist, Confucian, Daoist, and Anglo-analytic.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part 1: Knowing better: more capacious knowledge.- Chapter 2: Knowing-to.- Chapter 3: The epistemology of Mengzian extension.- Chapter 4: Knowledge-How attribution in English and Japanese.- Chapter 5: The problem of forgetting.- Chapter 6: Illness Narratives and Epistemic Injustice: Toward Extended Empathic Knowledge.- Chapter 7; The Yin/Yang of Pervasive Emotion.- Part II Embodied knowers in epistemic environments.- Chapter 8: Enacting environments: from Umwelts to institutions.- Chapter 9: Extended knowledge overextended?- Chapter 10: The possibility of the extended knower.- Chapter 11: Finding the joy of far-flung friends: extending oneself through terrestrial, metaphysical, and moral geographies.- Chapter 12: State epistemic environmentalism.- Chapter 13: Contextualising and decontextualising knowledge: extended knowledge in Confucius, Mozi and Zhuangzi.- Chapter 14: Models of knowledge in the Zhuangzi: Knowing with chisels and sticks.- Chapter 15: Dreyfus and Zeami on embodied expertise.
About the author
Karyn Lynne Lai is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia. She specializes in comparative Chinese-Western philosophical research and is an editor for
Philosophy Compass, associate editor of the
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and Chinese philosophy section co-editor of the
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Her books include
Introduction to Chinese Philosophy (2017) and
Learning from Chinese Philosophies (2016).
