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2 - What Is Knowledge?

from Part I - What Is Knowledge?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2022

Richard Ned Lebow
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Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
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I describes four kinds of knowledge and associate each with distinctive projects. What we generally refer to as positivist IR aspires to what Aristotle calls episteme: scientific knowledge that can be expressed mathematically. Interpretivist approaches aspire to phroēesis, which is best understood as practical knowledge that helps us cope with the world. This distinction cuts across paradigms and is a far more fundamental division.

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  • What Is Knowledge?
  • Richard Ned Lebow, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
  • Book: The Quest for Knowledge in International Relations
  • Online publication: 07 April 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009106573.003
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  • What Is Knowledge?
  • Richard Ned Lebow, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
  • Book: The Quest for Knowledge in International Relations
  • Online publication: 07 April 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009106573.003
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  • What Is Knowledge?
  • Richard Ned Lebow, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
  • Book: The Quest for Knowledge in International Relations
  • Online publication: 07 April 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009106573.003
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