Rene van Woudenberg (Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit)

The Epistemology of Reading and Interpretation

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Produktbeschreibung

Reading and textual interpretation are ordinary human activities, but precisely how they function as sources of knowledge is not well understood. In this book, Rene van Woudenberg explores the nature of reading and interpretation and argues they are distinct sources of knowledge that are irreducible to perception and testimony.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9781009016360
• ISBN-10: 1009016369
• Artikelnr.: 68801909

Autorenporträt

René van Woudenberg is Professor of Philosophy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Director of the Abraham Kuyper Center for Science and the Big Questions. He is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Common-Sense Philosophy (with Rik Peels, Cambridge, 2020) and Scientism: Prospects and Problems (with Rik Peels and Jeroen de Ridder, 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Knowing and reading
2. Reading and understanding
3. Sources of knowledge and their individuation
4. Why reading doesn't reduce either to attending to testimony or to perception
5. Reading as a source of knowledge
6. The objects of reading are the products of writing
7. Texts, meanings, and interpretation
8. Knowledge through interpretation (1): Allegory, difficulty, and disambiguation
9. Knowledge through interpretation (2): Holism, reconstruction, externalism, and reader response.