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Social Epistemology
A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy
Volume 19, 2005 - Issue 1
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Multiplicity, Criticism and Knowing What to Do Next: Way‐finding in a Transmodern World. Response to Meera Nanda’s Prophets Facing Backwards

Pages 19-32 | Published online: 08 Aug 2006
 

Abstract

The paper addresses the question of whether, as Nanda claims, treating all knowledge traditions including science as local, denies the possibility of criticism. It accepts the necessity for criticism but denies that science can be the sole arbiter of truth and argues that we have to live with holding differing knowledges in tension with one another.

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David Turnbull

David Turnbull is an Honorary Research Associate/Fellow in the Arts Faculty, Deakin University; History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne; Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University; Sociology, Lancaster University. His most recent book is Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers: Comparative Studies in the Sociology of Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge (London: Routledge, 2003 2nd ed).

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