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Epistemic Friction - An Essay on Knowledge, Truth, and Logic (Hardcover)
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Epistemic Friction - An Essay on Knowledge, Truth, and Logic (Hardcover)
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Gila Sher approaches knowledge from the perspective of the basic
human epistemic situation - the situation of limited yet
resourceful beings, living in a complex world and aspiring to know
it in its full complexity. What principles should guide them? Two
fundamental principles of knowledge are epistemic friction and
freedom. Knowledge must be substantially constrained by the world
(friction), but without active participation of the knower in
accessing the world (freedom) theoretical knowledge is impossible.
This requires a grounding of all knowledge, empirical and abstract,
in both mind and world, but the fall of traditional foundationalism
has led many to doubt the viability of this aclassicala project.
Sher challenges this skepticism, charting a new foundational
methodology, foundational holism, that differs from others in being
holistic, world-oriented, and universal (i.e., applicable to all
fields of knowledge). Using this methodology, Epistemic Friction
develops an integrated theory of knowledge, truth, and logic. This
includes (i) a dynamic model of knowledge, incorporating some of
Quineas revolutionary ideas while rejecting his narrow empiricism,
(ii) a substantivist, non-traditional correspondence theory of
truth, and (iii) an outline of a joint grounding of logic in mind
and world. The model of knowledge subjects all disciplines to
demanding norms of both veridicality and conceptualization. The
correspondence theory is robust and universal yet not simplistic or
naive, admitting diverse forms of correspondence. Logicas grounding
in the world brings it in line with other disciplines while
preserving, and explaining, its strong formality, necessity,
generality, and normativity.
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