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Knowers and Knowledge in East-West Philosophy

Epistemology Extended

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Editors:
  1. Karyn L. Lai

    1. UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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  • Expands philosophical discussions on knowledge by engaging with fresh ideas arising from research in the neurosciences, psychology, and anthropological studies
  • Offers a more realistic, phenomenological and concrete understanding of knowledge in human life than has hitherto been provided
  • Presents comparative insights from Japanese, Buddhist, Confucian, Daoist, continental European, and Anglo-analytic thought

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comparative East-West Philosophy (PSCEWP)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Karyn L. Lai
    Pages 1-14

  3. Knowing Better: More Capacious Knowledge

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Knowing-To

      • Stephen Hetherington
      Pages 17-41

    3. The Epistemology of Mengzian Extension

      • Waldemar Brys
      Pages 43-61

    4. Knowledge-How Attribution in English and Japanese

      • Shun Tsugita, Yu Izumi, Masaharu Mizumoto
      Pages 63-90

    5. The Problem of Forgetting

      • Chienkuo Mi, Man-to Tang
      Pages 91-110

    6. Illness Narratives and Epistemic Injustice: Toward Extended Empathic Knowledge

      • Seisuke Hayakawa
      Pages 111-138

    7. The Yin/Yang 陰陽 of Pervasive Emotion

      • Michael Slote
      Pages 139-156

  4. Embodied Knowers in Epistemic Environments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. Enacting Environments: From Umwelts to Institutions

      • Mog Stapleton
      Pages 159-189

    3. Extended Knowledge Overextended?

      • Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding Pedersen, Jens Christian Bjerring
      Pages 191-233

    4. The Possibility of the Extended Knower

      • Leo K. C. Cheung
      Pages 235-253

    5. Finding the Joy of Far-Flung Friends: Extending Oneself Through Terrestrial, Metaphysical, and Moral Geographies

      • Sydney Morrow
      Pages 255-274

    6. State Epistemic Environmentalism

      • Shane Ryan
      Pages 275-292

    7. Contextualising and Decontextualising Knowledge: Extended Knowledge in Confucius, Mozi and Zhuangzi

      • Margus Ott
      Pages 293-318

    8. Models of Knowledge in the Zhuangzi: Knowing with Chisels and Sticks

      • Karyn L. Lai
      Pages 319-343

    9. Dreyfus and Zeami on Embodied Expertise

      • Katsunori Miyahara
      Pages 345-366

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 367-370
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Keywords

About this book

This volume offers arguments from eastern and western philosophical traditions to enrich and diversify our present conceptions of knowledge. The contributors extend contemporary Western epistemology in novel directions, through investigating and questioning entrenched conceptions of knowledge. The cross-tradition engagement with the neurosciences, psychology, and anthropological studies is an important feature of the volume’s methodological approach that helps broaden our epistemological horizons. It presents a collection of perspectives on epistemic agency by engaging philosophical traditions east and west, including Japanese, Buddhist, Confucian, Daoist, and Anglo-analytic.  


Reviews

“Contemporary epistemology in the analytical tradition has recently been given a shot in the arm by engaging with key themes from Eastern philosophical traditions. This excellent volume is the very first to offer a fascinating overview of the cutting-edge work being done in this regard. In particular, the volume explores how Eastern and Western perspectives can combine to give us an insight into the burgeoning field of extended epistemology, which examines the epistemological ramifications of the extended cognition program in contemporary cognitive science." 

Duncan Pritchard, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, USA

"Knowers and Knowledge is a valuable interdisciplinary and intercultural work that offers new directions in the contemporary development of epistemological debates on a global scale. Drawing on various Asian philosophical traditions, this book also revalues and renews the idea of bodily knowledge, which has received far too little attention in Western epistemology."

Jana S. RoÅ¡ker, Professor of Sinology at the Department of Asian Studies, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia


Editors and Affiliations

  • UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Karyn L. Lai

About the editor

Karyn Lynne Lai is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia. She specializes in comparative Chinese-Western philosophical research and is an editor for Philosophy Compass, associate editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and Chinese philosophy section co-editor of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Her books include Introduction to Chinese Philosophy (2017) and Learning from Chinese Philosophies (2016). 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Knowers and Knowledge in East-West Philosophy

  • Book Subtitle: Epistemology Extended

  • Editors: Karyn L. Lai

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comparative East-West Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79349-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79348-7Published: 02 October 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79351-7Published: 03 October 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79349-4Published: 30 September 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2662-2378

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-2386

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 370

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy, general, Religious Studies, general

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