Shifting Ground : Knowledge and Reality, Transgression and Trustworthiness

Scheman, Naomi

ISBN 10: 0195395107 / ISBN 13: 9780195395105

Published by Oxford University Press, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shifting Ground : Knowledge and Reality, Transgression and Trustworthiness
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195395107
• ISBN 13: 9780195395105
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

This book joins epistemic and socio-political issues, using Wittgenstein and diverse liberatory theories to reorient epistemology as an explicitly political endeavor, with trustworthiness at its heart. Each essay was an attempt to grasp a particular set of problems, and they appear together as a model of passionate philosophical engagement.

About the Author

Naomi Scheman received her BA from Barnard College and her PhD from Harvard University. She has been teaching since 1979 at the University of Minnesota, where she is a Professor of Philosophy and of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, and she is a guest researcher at the Umeå Centre for Gender Studies in Sweden. A collection of her essays was published in 1993 by Routledge as Engenderings: Constructions of Knowledge, Authority, and Privilege, and she is co-editor, with Peg O'Connor, of Feminist Interpretations of Wittgenstein.