Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory

by Linda Martín Alcoff

Book Overview

"Real" knowing always involves a political dimension, Linda Martín Alcoff suggests. But this does not mean we need to give up realism or the possibility of truth. Recent work in continental philosophy insists on the influence that power and desire exert on knowing, whereas contemporary analytic philosophy largely ignores these political concerns in its accounts of justification and truth. Alcoff engages these traditionally conflicting approaches...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801474817
• ISBN13: 9780801474811
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher