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245 1. $a Epistemic responsibility $d Texte imprimé $f Lorraine Code
260 .1 $a Albany (N.Y.) $c State University of New York press $i 2020
280 .. $a 1 vol. (256 p.) $d 22 cm
300 .. $a Bibliogr. p. [255]-261. Notes bibliogr. Index
330 .. $a Having adequate knowledge of the world is not just a matter of survival but also one
of obligation. This obligation to ?know well? is what philosophers have termed ?epistemic
responsibility.? In this innovative and eclectic study, Lorraine Code explores the
possibilities inherent in this concept as a basis for understanding human attempts
to know and understand the world and for discerning the nature of intellectual virtue.
By focusing on the idea that knowing is a creative process guided by imperatives of
epistemic responsibility, Code provides a fresh perspective on the theory of knowledge.From
this new perspective, Code poses questions about knowledge that have a different focus
from those traditionally raised in the two leading epistemological theories, foundationalism
and coherentism. While not rejecting these approaches, this new position moves away
from a primary concentration on determinate products and towards an examination of
ever-changing processes. Arguing that knowledge never exists as an ungrounded abstraction
but rather emerges through dialogue between variously authoritative ?knowers? situated
within particular social and historical contexts, she draws extensively on examples
from lived social experience to illustrate the ways in which human beings have long
tried to recognize and meet their epistemic responsibilities
