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Book SynopsisMaking Space for Knowing: A Capacious Approach to Comparative Epistemology is an intervention in mainstream Western epistemology, especially as it relates to theories of knowledge, knowing, and knowers. Through its focus on propositional knowledge, contemporary mainstream epistemology has narrowed the scope of the definition of knowledge to a point where it fails to accurately describe the structure of knowing and prevents a genuine understanding of knowledge across different contexts and cultures. By drawing on resources in analytic philosophy and hermeneutics, Aaron B. Creller outlines an approach to comparative epistemology that makes space for the particularity of non-Western approaches to knowing. It then further develops this model by engaging with classical Chinese philosophy and twentieth-century Chinese epistemologists, offering a set of best practices for comparative epistemology.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: The Historical Narrative of Contemporary Conceptions of Analytic Knowledge Chapter Two: Contemporary Analytic Epistemology and the Problem of Justification Chapter Three: The Hermeneutic Structure of Knowing Chapter Four: Classical Chinese 知 zhi and a Capacious Theory of Knowledge Chapter Five: Best Practices in Comparative Epistemology Bibliography
