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The return of applied epistemology
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Chase, J and Coady, D, The return of applied epistemology, The Routledge Handbook of Applied Epistemology, Routledge, D Coady and J Chase (ed), New York, pp. 3-12. ISBN 9781138932654 (2019) [Research Book Chapter]
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Official URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781138932654
DOI: doi:10.4324/9781315679099
Abstract
The term ‘applied epistemology’ has been in irregular use for some time. It has occasionally been associated with pre-existing disciplines or practices: critical thinking, or the information sciences, or casuistry. But most often it simply invokes an analogy, direct or implicit, with applied ethics – for instance, when looking for a label for the activities standing to traditional epistemology and meta-epistemology as applied ethics stands to normative ethics and meta-ethics (Battersby 1989). And since applied ethics has been a well-known going concern for decades, the analogy does work by feeding our imagination: it highlights the many ways in which we might regard philosophical work as constituting applied epistemology. But the fact that applied ethics was also consciously launched by way of critique of normative ethics and meta-ethics is also useful; here the analogy flags potential concerns with the way the analytic epistemological tradition has developed.
Item Details
Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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Keywords: | epistemology, knowledge, rationality |
Research Division: | Philosophy and Religious Studies |
Research Group: | Philosophy |
Research Field: | Epistemology |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in philosophy and religious studies |
UTAS Author: | Chase, J (Associate Professor James Chase) |
UTAS Author: | Coady, D (Dr David Coady) |
ID Code: | 128321 |
Year Published: | 2019 |
Deposited By: | Office of the School of Humanities |
Deposited On: | 2018-09-13 |
Last Modified: | 2020-08-21 |
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