The Epistemology of Reading and Interpretation

The Epistemology of Reading and Interpretation

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  • Author: RenĂ© van Woudenberg
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1009035967
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

Reading and textual interpretation are ordinary human activities, performed inside as well as outside academia, but precisely how they function as unique sources of knowledge is not well understood. In this book, René van Woudenberg explores the nature of reading and how it is distinct from perception and (attending to) testimony, which are two widely acknowledged knowledge sources. After distinguishing seven accounts of interpretation, van Woudenberg discusses the question of whether all reading inevitably involves interpretation, and shows that although reading and interpretation often go together, they are distinct activities. He goes on to argue that both reading and interpretation can be paths to realistically conceived truth, and explains the conditions under which we are justified in believing that they do indeed lead us to the truth. Along the way, he offers clear and novel analyses of reading, meaning, interpretation, and interpretative knowledge.


Interpretation and Social Knowledge

Interpretation and Social Knowledge

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  • Author: Isaac Ariail Reed
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN: 0226706729
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 205

For the past fifty years anxiety over naturalism has driven debates in social theory. One side sees social science as another kind of natural science, while the other rejects the possibility of objective and explanatory knowledge. Interpretation and Social Knowledge suggests a different route, offering a way forward for an antinaturalist sociology that overcomes the opposition between interpretation and explanation and uses theory to build concrete, historically specific causal explanations of social phenomena.


Epistemology and Logic in the New Testament

Epistemology and Logic in the New Testament

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  • Author: Douglas W. Kennard
  • Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • ISBN: 1532608160
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 278

Biblical contributors express an oral stage engaging Christianity within a properly basic communal worldview similar to Alvin Plantinga advocates. This approach includes a communal Christian application of common sense realism within a worldview and rhetoric similar to Hillite Pharisaism. Each biblical contributor provided vivid testimony using rabbinic language and thought forms. For example, Jewish-Christian midrash re-appropriates Old Testament quotes and narrative in a new performative pesher manner to present Jesus as the Christ. Moving beyond the word studies of biblical epistemologists, Pharisaic-rabbinic Judaism use of biblical revelation, mystical vision, dream, or audible divine voice frame mystical empiricism similar to William Alston. Non-foundational realism facilitates a communal resilient oral tradition similar to the rabbinics. Additionally, Luke-Acts extensively engages Hellenistic historiographic method and the concept of "witness." When multiple interpretations occur concerning miracles, epistemic dualistic non-foundational Lockean epistemology emerges to contribute to the authority of communal kingdom testimony. Occasionally, this Lockean approach adds an internal transformation much as Jonathan Edwards modified Locke to set forth his religious affections as a divine virtue epistemology confirming the authentic narrow way through Peircean pragmatism. This internal knowledge provides self-referential confirmation for a personal relationship and filial knowledge. Each of these expressions of knowledge fosters an ultimate Kierkegaardian commitment to the Trinitarian Christian God.


How Do We Know?

How Do We Know?

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  • Author: James K. Dew Jr.
  • Publisher: InterVarsity Press
  • ISBN: 0830851895
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 173

What does it mean to know something? Can we have confidence in our knowledge? Epistemology, the study of knowledge, can often seem like a daunting subject. And yet few topics are more basic to human life. We are inquisitive creatures by nature, and the unending quest for truth leads us to raise difficult questions about the quest itself. What are the conditions, sources, and limits of our knowledge? Do our beliefs need to be rationally justified? Can we have certainty? In this primer on epistemology, James Dew and Mark Foreman guide readers through this discipline in philosophy. This second edition has been expanded with new material and now serves as the first volume in IVP's Questions in Christian Philosophy series. By asking basic questions and using clear, jargon-free language, they provide an entry into one of the most important issues in contemporary philosophy. The Questions in Christian Philosophy Series features introductory textbooks that offer students a Christian perspective on the various branches of philosophy, enabling them as they seek to understand all facets of life including existence, knowledge, ethics, art, and more.


Seeing Fictions in Film

Seeing Fictions in Film

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  • Author: George M. Wilson
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0199594899
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 229

What happens when we view a movie? Do we actually see the fiction, and if so how? Literary fiction is recounted by a voice of some sort--the narrator. George M. Wilson explores the strategies of cinematic narration, and argues that this prompts viewers to imagine seeing and hearing events in the fictional world.


The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations

The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations

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  • Author: Paul Ricoeur
  • Publisher: A&C Black
  • ISBN: 9780826477095
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 546

Paul Ricoeur (1913-) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Chicago and Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences at the University of Paris X, Nanterre. One of the foremost contemporary French philosophers, his work is influenced by Husserl, Marcel and Jaspers and is particularly concerned with symbolism, the creation of meaning and the interpretation of texts. The Conflict of Interpretations ranges across an astonishing diversity of fields: structuralism, linguistics, psychoanalysis, religion and faith. The essays it comprises are bound together by Ricoeur's customary concern for interpretation and language and all bear the stamp of the systematic and critical thinking which has become his hallmark in contemporary philosophy. Edited by Don Ihde>


Epistemology, the Justification of Belief

Epistemology, the Justification of Belief

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  • Author: David L. Wolfe
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780877843405
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 104

The Contours of Christian Philosophy series will consist of short introductory-level textbooks in the various fields of philosophy. These books will introduce readers to major problems and alternative ways of dealing with those problems. These books, however, will differ from most in that they will evaluate alternative viewpoints not only with regard to their general strength, but also with regard to their value in the construction of a Christian world and life view. Thus, the books will explore the implications of the various views for Christian theology as well as the implications that Christian convictions might have for the philosophical issues discussed. It is crucial that Christians attain a greater degree of philosophical awareness in order to improve the quality of general scholarship and evangelical theology.


Frederick Douglass and the Philosophy of Religion

Frederick Douglass and the Philosophy of Religion

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  • Author: Timothy J. Golden
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN: 0739191683
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 277

Timothy J. Golden presents an existential, phenomenological, and political interpretation of Douglass's use of narrative. Reading Douglass with Kierkegaard, Kafka, Kant, and Levinas, Golden argues that analytic theism is an inauthentic preoccupation with knowledge at the expense of a concrete moral sensibility that Douglass's narrative provides.


Plato's Epistemology

Plato's Epistemology

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  • Author: Jessica Moss
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 0198867409
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 269

Plato's Epistemology presents an original interpretation of one of the central topics in Plato's work: epistemology. Moss argues, against the grain of much modern scholarship, that Plato's epistemology is radically different from our own.


Epistemology

Epistemology

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  • Author: W. Jay Wood
  • Publisher: InterVarsity Press
  • ISBN: 0830875069
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 219

How do we know what we know? What have wisdom, prudence and studiousness to do with justifying our beliefs? Jay Wood begins this introduction to epistemology by taking an extended look at the idea of knowing within the context of the intellectual virtues. He then surveys current views of foundationalism, epistemic justification and reliabilism. Finally he examines the relationship of epistemology to religious belief, and the role of emotions and virtues in proper cognitive functioning Professors will find this text, with its many examples drawn from everyday student experience, especially useful in introducing students to the formal study of epistemology.