Knowers and Knowledge in East-West Philosophy

This volume offers arguments from eastern and western philosophical traditions to enrich and diversify our present conceptions of knowledge. The contributors extend contemporary Western epistemology in novel directions, through investigating and questioning entrenched conceptions of knowledge. The cross-tradition engagement with the neurosciences, psychology, and anthropological studies is an important feature of the volume's methodological approach that helps broaden our epistemological horizons. It presents a collection of perspectives on epistemic agency by engaging philosophical traditions east and west, including Japanese, Buddhist, Confucian, Daoist, and Anglo-analytic.

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Karyn Lynne Lai is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia. She specializes in comparative Chinese-Western philosophical research and is an editor for Philosophy Compass, associate editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and Chinese philosophy section co-editor of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Her books include Introduction to Chinese Philosophy (2017) and Learning from Chinese Philosophies (2016).

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