Frisina The Unity of Knowledge and Action

Toward a Nonrepresentational Theory of Knowledge
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8866-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Philosophy

Uses the thought of Wang Yang-ming, John Dewey, and Alfred North Whitehead to explain a more coherent theory of knowledge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frisina, Warren G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Pragmatismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. Preliminary Remarks 1. Knowledge and the Self: Charles Taylor's Sources of the Self 2. Antirepresentationalism in Late- and Postanalytic Philosophy: Donald Davidson and Richard Rorty 3. Minds, Bodies, and Consciousness: Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained PART II. Preliminary Remarks 4. Are Knowledge and Action Really One Thing? Wang Yang-ming's Doctrine of Mind 5. Knowledge as Active, Aesthetic, and Hypothetical: The Relationship between Dewey's Metaphysics and Epistemology 6. A Pragmatic Interpretation of Whitehead's Cosmology PART III. Preliminary Remarks 7. Minds, Bodies, Experience, Nature: Is Panpsychism Really Dead? 8. Heaven's Partners or Nietzschean Free Spirits? 9. Knowledge, Action, and the Organicist Turn Notes Works Cited Index

Über Autor(innen)

Warren G. Frisina is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Hofstra University.