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Understanding the Tacit

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This book outlines a new account of the tacit, meaning tacit knowledge, presuppositions, practices, traditions, and so forth. It includes essays on topics such as underdetermination and mutual understanding, and critical discussions of the major alternative approaches to the tacit, including Bourdieu’s habitus and various practice theories, Oakeshott’s account of tradition, Quentin Skinner’s theory of historical meaning, Harry Collins’s idea of collective tacit knowledge, as well as discussions of relevant cognitive science concepts, such as non-conceptual content, connectionism, and mirror neurons.

The new account of tacit knowledge focuses on the fact that in making the tacit explicit, a person is not, as many past accounts have supposed, reading off the content of some sort of shared and fixed tacit scheme of presuppositions, but rather responding to the needs of the Other for understanding.

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ISBN: 9781138929647
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Author: Stephen P Turner
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 246 pages
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Genres: Social and political philosophy
Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge
Social theory

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