PHIL 008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Episteme, Industrial Revolution
10 Jun 2020
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Affordances: action capabilities that the environment affords to certain species. Foucault used the french world connaissance to stand for such items of surface knowledge while savoir meant more than science; it was a frame, postulated by foucault, within which surface hypotheses got their sense. Savoir is not knowledge in the sense of a bunch of solid propositions. This depth" knowledge is more like a postulated set of rules that determine what kinds of sentences are going to count as true or false in some domain. The kinds of things to e said about the brain in 1780 are not the kinds of things to be said a quarter century later. That is not because we have different beliefs about brains, but because brain" denotes a new kind of object in the later discourse, and occurs in different sorts of sentences. The word revolution now has political connotation. (to revolt/overthrow) during the scientific revolution meant rotating wheels.
