GEOGRAPHY, EXPERIENCE, AND IMAGINATION - TOWARDS A GEOGRAPHICAL EPISTEMOLOGY
GEOGRAPHY, EXPERIENCE, AND IMAGINATION - TOWARDS A GEOGRAPHICAL EPISTEMOLOGY
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10.1111/j.1467-8306.1961.tb00377.x
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1961-01-01
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LOWENTHAL, D
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LOWENTHAL, D
This is an expanded version of a paper read at the XIXth International Geographical Congress, Stockholm, August, 1960. For encouragement, advice, and criticism, I am grateful to George A. Cooper, Richard Hartshorne, William C. Lewis, William D. Pattison, Michael G. Smith, Philip L. Wagner, William Warntz, J. W. N. Watson, and John K. Wright. Richard F. Kuhns, Jr., has kindly read and commented on several drafts of the manuscript, and I am indebted to him for numerous suggestions and references.* John K. Wright,“Terrae Incognitae: the Place of the Imagination in Geography,” Annals, Association of American Geographers, Vol. 37 (1947), pp. 1-15, on p. 15. The phrase “The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Heads” is the name of the first chapter in Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion (New York: Macmillan, 1922). As my subtitle suggests, this is not a study of the meaning or methods of geography, but rather an essay in the theory of geographical knowledge. Hartshorne’s methodological treatises analyze and develop logical principles of procedure for geography as a professional science,“a form of ‘knowing,”’as he writes,“that is different from the ways in which we ‘know’by instinct, intuition, a priori deduction or revelation”(Richard