Shifting Ground: Knowledge and Reality, Transgression and Trustworthiness

New York, US: Oxford University Press (2011)
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This book joins epistemic and socio-political issues, using Wittgenstein and diverse liberatory theories to reorient epistemology as an explicitly political endeavor, with trustworthiness at its heart. Each essay was an attempt to grasp a particular set of problems, and they appear together as a model of passionate philosophical engagement.

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Introduction

This introductory chapter lays down the philosophy behind the publishing of this collection. All essays therein focus on an epistemological approach to social transgressions, by exploring the current practical, moral, and political problems that can undermine social, political, and economi... see more

Non-Negotiable Demands

This chapter examines the limits of philosophy and why it is not possible to discover every single “truth” of reality given the tension between needs versus demands. Philosophy unfortunately cannot address the demands placed upon it, as it has been decontextualized in the historical and po... see more

Feminist Epistemology*

This chapter constitutes a defense and definition of feminist epistemology, a field that may at first appear oxymoronic. Epistemology in general had been considered apolitical until the establishment of the Society for Women in Philosophy. Where a woman philosopher would once remain an ano... see more

On Waking Up One Morning and Discovering We Are Them

This chapter meditates on the issues of identity and pedagogy in a student-teacher relationship. The author's aspirations as an “invisible” mentor whose influence is deeply felt despite her position not being so easily defined, contrasts with the other extreme—that of being capable of conf... see more

Forms of Life

This chapter addresses the ostensibly Wittgensteinian question of “home” and how our words can intelligibly affect our perception of home and likewise alienate or marginalize others. The perceptions of the “outside in” set—the marginalized—illustrate this privileged marginality by question... see more

Epistemology Resuscitated

This chapter argues for the political, post-modern dimensions in philosophy (among them feminist philosophy) which has been dismissed by practitioners of the more traditional and apolitical approach as lacking in scientific objectivity. Returning to the arguments of the first chapter of th... see more

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