Claves epistemológicas en el enfoque de Charles Taylor para entender otras culturas, parte 1

Javier Gracia-Calandín; Olain  Olaciregui-Berrouet

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Epistemological keys in Charles Taylor's approach to understand other cultures, part I

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Javier Gracia-Calandín Universidad de Valencia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9260-5274
Olain Olaciregui-Berrouet Universidad de Valencia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0228-6236

No. 74 (2022): Septiembre

Abstract

The aim of this article is to rethink the most appropriate type of epistemology to understand other cultures. For this, the approach of Charles Taylor is used. In the first place, we discuss modern mediational epistemology and the deficiencies it entails to account for the link between people and societies with the world. Secondly, the deficiency that this epistemological model implies to account for the mutual understanding between people. More specifically, it focuses on the deficiency in atomistic and monologistic terms that representational image entails considering the holistic argument of background. Finally, delving into the holistic argument of the background, an alternative model of epistemology based on the conception of the agent embodied in culture is proposed. A model that combines reality and plurality and aims to overcome both classical realism and relativism.

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epistemology, Charles Taylor, hermeneutics, realism, plurality

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Gracia-Calandín , J., & Olaciregui-Berrouet , O. . (2022). Epistemological keys in Charles Taylor’s approach to understand other cultures, part I . Cinta De Moebio. Revista De Epistemología De Ciencias Sociales, (74), 37–50. Retrieved from https://cintademoebio.uchile.cl/index.php/CDM/article/view/68398