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According to philosophical lore, epistemological orthodoxy is a
purist epistemology in which epistemic concepts such as belief,
evidence, and knowledge are characterized to be pure and free from
practical concerns. In recent years, the debate has focused
narrowly on the concept of knowledge and a number of challenges
have been posed against the orthodox, purist view of knowledge.
While the debate about knowledge is still a lively one, the
pragmatic exploration in epistemology has just begun. This
collection takes on the task of expanding this exploration into new
areas. It discusses how the practical might encroach on all areas
of our epistemic lives from the way we think about belief,
confidence, probability, and evidence to our ideas about epistemic
value and excellence. The contributors also delve into the
ramifications of pragmatic views in epistemology for questions
about the value of knowledge and its practical role. Pragmatic
Encroachment in Epistemology will be of interest to a broad range
of epistemologists, as well as scholars working on virtue theory
and practical reason.
According to philosophical lore, epistemological orthodoxy is a
purist epistemology in which epistemic concepts such as belief,
evidence, and knowledge are characterized to be pure and free from
practical concerns. In recent years, the debate has focused
narrowly on the concept of knowledge and a number of challenges
have been posed against the orthodox, purist view of knowledge.
While the debate about knowledge is still a lively one, the
pragmatic exploration in epistemology has just begun. This
collection takes on the task of expanding this exploration into new
areas. It discusses how the practical might encroach on all areas
of our epistemic lives from the way we think about belief,
confidence, probability, and evidence to our ideas about epistemic
value and excellence. The contributors also delve into the
ramifications of pragmatic views in epistemology for questions
about the value of knowledge and its practical role. Pragmatic
Encroachment in Epistemology will be of interest to a broad range
of epistemologists, as well as scholars working on virtue theory
and practical reason.
This study provides new insights into aircraft plume behavior that
greatly surpasses historic understanding, and data for more
accurate modeling of plume rise and spread from commercial aircraft
at airports. This final report completes individual analysis of the
LAX data set, initially reported in the related Preliminary Report
published in September 2002. Additional studies are planned (based
on available funding) to analyze potential changes in the derived
parameters due to site characteristics (e.g., elevation, weather
conditions) and will be reported on as the work continues.
Word Toys: Poetry and Technics is an engaging and thought provoking
volume that speculates on a range of textual works—poetic,
novelistic, and programmed—as technical objects. With the ascent
of digital culture, new forms of literature and literary production
are thriving that include multimedia, networked, conceptual, and
other as-yet-unnamed genres while traditional genres and
media—the lyric, the novel, the book—have been transformed.
Word Toys: Poetry and Technics is an engaging and thought-provoking
volume that speculates on a range of poetic, novelistic, and
programmed works that lie beyond the language of the literary and
which views them instead as technical objects. Brian Kim
Stefans considers the problems that arise when discussing these
progressive texts in relation to more traditional print-based
poetic texts. He questions the influence of game theory and digital
humanities rhetoric on poetic production, and how non-digital
works, such as contemporary works of lyric poetry, are influenced
by the recent ubiquity of social media, the power of search
engines, and the public perceptions of language in a time of nearly
universal surveillance. Word Toys offers new readings of
canonical avant-garde writers such as Ezra Pound and Charles Olson,
major successors such as Charles Bernstein, Alice Notley, and Wanda
Coleman, mixed-genre artists including Caroline Bergvall, Tan Lin,
and William Poundstone, and lyric poets such as Harryette Mullen
and Ben Lerner. Writers that trouble the poetry/science divide such
as Christian Bök, and novelists who have embraced digital
technology such as Mark Z. Danielewski and the elusive Toadex
Hobogrammathon, anchor reflections on the nature of creativity in a
world where authors collaborate, even if unwittingly, with machines
and networks. In addition, Stefans names provocative new
genres—among them the nearly formless “undigest” and the
transpacific “miscegenated script”—arguing by example that
interdisciplinary discourse is crucial to the development of
scholarship about experimental work.
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