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„Teoria cunoștinței”: Angajamentele epistemologice tacite ale lui Nicolae Bagdasar
Bagdasar’s „Theory of Knowledge” and its unstated epistemological commitments

Author(s): Marius Augustin Drăghici
Subject(s): History of Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Contemporary Philosophy
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Bagdasar; epistemology; theory of knowledge; analysis of language; hermeneutics; Kant;

Summary/Abstract: Through the filter of his specific two steps method in approaching theories of knowledge, Bagdasar seems to invite his interpreter to consider solely the systematic level. In the following study, I interpret Bagdasar’s conception of knowledge from a perspective that he did not explicitly assume. This approach gives an opportunity to discover not only the methodology of Bagdasar’s epistemological research, or a possible methodology for any “epistemological research”, but even Bagdasar’s own (non-explicit) position in relation to what and how knowledge might be. Of these three main points of my research, a special attention will be paid to Bagdasar’s so called “systematic approach”, in order to reveal the non-explicit commitments on which he built his own conception of knowledge. The pragmatic analysis of the results obtained by Bagdasar in his „Theory of knowledge” allows the uncovering of some tacit assumptions that seem to contradict the position of neutrality he explicitly assumed.

  • Issue Year: XVII/2021
  • Issue No: 17
  • Page Range: 43-68
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Romanian