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What We Mean by Experience (Hardcover, New)
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What We Mean by Experience (Hardcover, New)
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Social scientists and scholars in the humanities all rely on
first-person descriptions of experience to understand how subjects
construct their worlds. The problem they always face is how to
integrate first-person accounts with an impersonal stance. Over the
course of the twentieth century, this problem was compounded as the
concept of experience itself came under scrutiny. First hailed as a
wellspring of knowledge and the weapon that would vanquish
metaphysics and Cartesianism by pragmatists like Dewey and James,
by the century's end experience had become a mere vestige of both,
a holdover from seventeenth-century empiricist metaphysics. This
devaluation of experience has left us bereft, unable to account for
first-person perspectives and for any kind of agency or
intentionality.
This book takes on the critique of empiricism and the skepticism
with regard to experience that has issued from two seemingly
disparate intellectual strains of thought: anti-foundationalist and
holistic philosophy of science and epistemology (Kuhn and Rorty, in
particular) and feminist critiques of identity politics. Both
strains end up marginalizing experience as a viable corrective for
theory, and both share notions of human beings and cognition that
cause the problem of the relation between experience and our
theories to present itself in a particular way. Indeed, they render
experience an intractable problem by opening up a gap between a
naturalistic understanding of human beings and an understanding of
humans as cultural entities, as non-natural makers of meaning.
Marianne Janack aims to close this gap, to allow us to be
naturalistic and hermeneutic at once. Drawing on cognitive
neuroscience, the pragmatist tradition, and ecological psychology,
her book rescues experience as natural contact with the world.
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