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Single Idea 20188

[catalogued under 11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding]

Full Idea

There are complaints that contemporary epistemology is too atomistic, and that the value of understanding has been neglected.

Gist of Idea

Modern epistemology is too atomistic, and neglects understanding

Source

Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski (Virtues of the Mind [1996], I 2)

A Reaction

This is because of the excessive influence of logic in contemporary analytic philosophy, which has to reduce knowledge to K(Fa), rather than placing it in a human context.

Book Reference

Zagzebski,Linda: 'Virtues of the Mind' [CUP 1996], p.29