Understanding the Tacit

This volume explores the issue of tacit knowledge, showing how a topic that is central to cognitive science is relevant in important ways to science studies, social theory, and politics.

Stephen P. Turner is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida.

Introduction: Tacit Knowledge: Between Habit and Presupposition Part I: Two Key Philosophical Issues: Underdetermination and Understanding Others 1. Tacit Knowledge and the Problem of Computer Modeling Cognitive Processes in Science 2. Davidson's Normativity Part II: Critiques: Practices, Meanings, and Collective Tacit Objects 3. Starting with Tacit Knowledge, Ending with Durkheim? 4. Practice Then and Now 5. Practice Relativism 6. Mirror Neurons and Practices: A Response to Lizardo 7. Tradition and Cognitive Science: Oakeshott's Undoing of the Kantian Mind 8. Meaning Without Theory Part III: The Alternative: Tacitness, Empathy, and the Other 9. Making the Tacit Explicit 10. The Strength of Weak Empathy 11. Collective or Social? Tacit Knowledge and Its Kin