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Knowledge by Agreement - The Programme of Communitarian Epistemology (Paperback, New edition)
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Knowledge by Agreement - The Programme of Communitarian Epistemology (Paperback, New edition)
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Knowledge by Agreement defends the ideas that knowledge is a social
status (like money, or marriage), and that knowledge is primarily
the possession of groups rather than individuals. Part I develops a
new theory of testimony. It breaks with the traditional view
according to which testimony is not, except accidentally, a
generative source of knowledge. One important consequence of the
new theory is a rejection of attempts to globally justify trust in
the words of others. Part II proposes a communitarian theory of
empirical knowledge. Martin Kusch argues that empirical belief can
acquire the status of knowledge only by being shared with others,
and that all empirical beliefs presuppose social institutions. As a
result all knowledge is essentially political. Part III defends
some of the controversial premises and consequences of Parts I and
II: the community-dependence of normativity, epistemological and
semantic relativism, anti-realism, and a social conception of
objectivity. Martin Kusch's bold approach to epistemology is a
challenge to philosophy and will arouse interest in the wider
academic world.
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