Graduation Year
2015
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree
Ph.D.
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Department
Philosophy
Degree Granting Department
Philosophy
Major Professor
Alexander Levine, Ph.D.
Co-Major Professor
Stephen Turner, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Charles Guignon, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Joanne Waugh, Ph.D.
Committee Member
William Goodwin, Ph.D.
Keywords
embodied knowledge, enactivism, participatory sense-making, tacit knowledge, testimonial knowledge
Abstract
There have been monumental advances in the study of the social dimensions of knowledge in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. But it has been common within a wide variety of fields--including social philosophy, cognitive science, epistemology, and the philosophy of science--to approach the social dimensions of knowledge as simply another resource to be utilized or controlled. I call this view, in which other people's epistemic significance are only of instrumental value, manipulationism. I identify manipulationism, trace its manifestations in the aforementioned fields, and explain how to move beyond it. The principal strategy that I employ for moving beyond manipulationism consists of synthesizing enactivism and neo-Kuhnian social epistemology. Specifically, I expand the enactivist concept of participatory sense-making by linking it to recent conceptual innovations in social epistemology, such as the concept of immanent cogent argumentation.
Scholar Commons Citation
Eck, David Alexander, "The Encultured Mind: From Cognitive Science to Social Epistemology" (2015). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/5472
