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UNDERSTANDING THE TACIT IBD

ROUTLEDGE
11 / 2013
9780415709446
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Sinopsis

This book outlines a new account of the tacit, meaning tacit knowledge, presuppositions, practices, traditions, and so forth. It includes essays on topics such as underdetermination and mutual understanding, and critical discussions of the major alternative approaches to the tacit, including BourdieuâÇÖs habitus and various practice theories, OakeshottâÇÖs account of tradition, Quentin SkinnerâÇÖs theory of historical meaning, Harry CollinsâÇÖs idea of collective tacit knowledge, as well as discussions of relevant cognitive science concepts, such as non-conceptual content, connectionism, and mirror neurons. The new account of tacit knowledge focuses on the fact that in making the tacit explicit, a person is not, as many past accounts have supposed, reading off the content of some sort of shared and fixed tacit scheme of presuppositions, but ratheráresponding to the needs of the Other for understanding.