Practice-as-research and the Problem of Knowledge
Practice-as-research and the Problem of Knowledge
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作为研究的实践和知识问题
DOI:
10.1080/13528160701363556
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发表时间:
2006
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0.1
通讯作者:
Robin Nelson
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作者:
Robin Nelson
The ‘problem of knowledge’ has been a topic for debate in the Western philosophical tradition since Plato. Though no wholly uncontested conclusions have yet been reached, a distinctive approach with characteristic criteria and canons of evidence based upon rationality and justification emerged in the seventeenth century to inform the Enlightenment academy. After ideas about the origin and nature of the universe were de-coupled from myth and religion, opinion and belief could no longer suffice where knowledge might be established on more objective grounds. As part of a hierarchy in which he installed knowledge above reasoning, belief and illusion respectively, Plato located the animal drives, passions, emotions and desires in the lowest part of the soul and intellect in the highest part. Plato also opened up a divide between theory and practice. At the beginnings of the Western tradition of thought, the privileging of theory might be traced back to the Theaetetus, in which as Bourdieu formulates it: