Turning Back the Linguistic Turn in the Theory of Knowledge
@article{Allen2007TurningBT, title={Turning Back the Linguistic Turn in the Theory of Knowledge}, author={B. Allen}, journal={Thesis Eleven}, year={2007}, volume={89}, pages={22 - 6} }
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… CONTINUE READING
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