Review of Unity of knowledge and action: Toward a nonrepresentational theory of knowledge

• Main Author: TAN, Sor-hoon
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2005
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2534; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3791/viewcontent/4139778__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The title of this book is inspired by the Neo-Confucian scholar, Wang Yangming (1472-1529). However, the volume is not devoted solely to Wang Yangming's philosophy about the unity of knowledge and action. Wang is only one of several thinkers brought into this philosophical conversation and does not even receive the most attention (Richard Rorty has that honor). The conver- sation is interesting and occasionally illuminating, although one is not sure at the end whether it is moving toward one particular nonrepresentation theory of knowledge or whether the conversation partners who share an aversion to representational theories might disagree profoundly about what kind of nonrep- resentational theory will suffice