Towards a Liberatory Epistemology
Towards a Liberatory Epistemology
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Author(s): Heikes, Deborah
Heikes, Deborah K.
ISBN No.: 9783030164843
Pages: x, 212
Year: 201905
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 117.29
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

1. Moral Awakenings.- I. Rethinking Reason: An Overview.- II. The Practice of Skepticism.- III. Objectivism and Relativism.


- IV. Overview.- 2. The Power of Ignorance.- I. Enlightenment Origins of Ignorance.- II. Ignorance and Power.


- III. "Proper" Epistemology and Epistemic Power.- IV. Epistemic Agency and Knowledge-Sharing.- V. Shifting Epistemic Perspectives.- 3. Towards a Genuine Understanding.


- I. Grasping Understanding.- II. Understanding Within a Network of Possibilities.- III. Confirmation Bias and Understanding.- IV. The Responsibility to Understand.


- V. Understanding as Second Nature.- 4. Reasonable Grounds.- I. Why Not Reason?.- II. Being Reasonable- and Being Impartial.


- III. Rawlsian Reasonableness.- IV. Reasonableness and Cross Cultural Language-Games.- V. The Practice of Reasonableness.- 5. Postscript: Can we have a Liberatory Epistemology?.


- I. Finding Epistemic Footing.- II. Communal Graspings at What is Real.- III. Reasonableness Revisited.- IV. Liberatory Epistemology and Social Justice.



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