The Interplay of Interpretation and Embodiment: A Phenomenological Approach to Epistemology
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| Rok publikování | 2024 |
| Druh | Další prezentace na konferencích |
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| Popis | The concept of interpretation traditionally draws attention to the epistemological commitment against the empiricist claim that unmediated access to the world is possible and advantageous for humans. Various philosophers of science, from Feyerabend to Sellars and Davidson, affirm the unavoidability of interpretation and offer a revealing critique of our assumedly direct epistemic confrontation with "facts". Asserting the untenability of epistemological foundationalism does not necessarily rely on a commitment to epistemological nihilism. For social theory, it is crucial to safeguard this discourse about the possibility of truthful knowledge that (i) does not adhere to empiricist presuppositions and, at the same time, (ii) resists the sceptical assumption that the endorsement of interpretive mediation would make our epistemological access to the world unjustifiable. This task requires making clear how could the theoretical knowledge's validity be justified (i) without neglecting linguistic, affective, and social mediation, and at the same time (ii) not reducing justification to a struggle-driven social practice without having a chance to claim that available knowledge of particular phenomena is distorted, impoverished, or misleading. The paper focuses on the phenomenological perspective on embodiment as an alternative to the empiricist notion of experience. Disclosing the entanglement of matter and meaning captures how corporeal and other modes of mediation condition the plurality of perspectives and give grounds to justify epistemological validity. |
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