Turning Back the Linguistic Turn in the Theory of Knowledge
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5035449 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barry Allen (0000-0002-2779-0060, McMaster University, bgallen@ mcmaster. ca, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 6-22 |
| Publication date | 2007-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513607076129 |
| OpenAlex | W2114732375 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
The so-called linguistic turn in philosophy intensified (rather than overcame) the rationalism that has haunted Western ideas about knowledge since antiquity. Orthodox accounts continue to present knowledge as a linguistic, logical quality, expressed in statements or theories that are well justified by evidence and actually true. Restating themes from the author's Knowledge and Civilization (2004a), I introduce an alternative conception of knowledge designed to overcome these propositional, discursive, logocentric presumptions. I interpret knowledge as a quality of artifacts. A surgical operation or a bridge may be as good examples of knowledge as any true scientific proposition or theory. I define the quality that marks an artifact as a work of knowledge as superlative artifactual performance. To explain knowledge in these terms is not to offer a metaphysical or epistemological theory of its essence or concept. Instead, I am explaining knowledge in terms of its good, its value, the human point of caring to know
Civilization · Descriptive knowledge · Epistemology · Linguistic turn · Linguistics · Metaphysics · Proposition · Sociology · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Computer Science · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · History · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |