Understanding the Tacit Contributor(s): Turner, Stephen P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138929646 ISBN-13: 9781138929647 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Epistemology - Social Science | Sociology - General - Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition |
Dewey: 153.4 |
Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6" W x 9" (0.74 lbs) 246 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |