![]() | Grounding Knowledge: Environmental Philosophy, Epistemology, and Place Mountains and freeways, oceans and apartment buildings, trees and automobiles: such things lend shape to mental activity, says Christopher J. Preston. Yet Western epistemology, since its origins, has neglected these material factors. Even postmodern perspectives on how we think and know continue to emphasize social and cultural factors over the physical environment. CHRISTOPHER J. PRESTON is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina. |
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