Rethinking Knowledge

Robert F. Goodman is Visiting Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Haifa, Israel. Walter R. Fisher is Professor in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California.

"This book addresses a set of epistemic developments important throughout the academy. The range of contributors is excellent, and their collective prestige will attract more than a few readers all by itself. A further advantage is that the range of fields addressed makes the collection interesting to scholars in a wide variety of disciplines." — John S. Nelson, University of Iowa

• Acknowledgments ForewordStephen Toulmin IntroductionRobert F. Goodman Part I. Fundamental Issues: Method, Values, Mind, and Self 1. Economics and the Limits of Scientific KnowledgeDonald N. McCloskey 2. The Truth/Value of JudgmentsBarbara Hernstein Smith 3. Is There a Problem in Explaning Cognitive Process?Aaron Ben-Ze'ev 4. The Dialogical SelfCharles Taylor Part II. Reorientations in Social Science Inquiry 5. Causality and Causal Inference in the Study of OrganizationsDonald A. Schon 6. The Redesign of Ethnography after the Critique of Its RhetoricGeorge E. Marcus 7. Toward an Evolutionary Hermeneutics: The Case of WisdomMihaly Csikszentmihalyi Part III. Values, Reason, and Responsibility 8. Representation without GroundsJane Flax 9. Narration, Knowledge, and the Possibility of WisdomWalter R. Fisher Part IV. Knowledge and Schema Theory 10. Bridging Cognition and KnowledgeHelen Couclelis 11. The Schema Theory of Minds: Implications for the Social SciencesMichael A. Arbib BibliographyContributorsIndex