Toward New Philosophical Explorations of the Epistemic Desire to Know

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Toward New Philosophical Explorations of the Epistemic Desire to Know is written by Marianna Papastephanou and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1527531988 (ISBN 10) and 9781527531987 (ISBN 13).

This collection of essays explores curiosity from many philosophical perspectives of relevance to various fields and disciplines such as educational studies, epistemology, political philosophy and history of thought. It advances and enriches scholarly research on curiosity while critiquing current approaches to the epistemic desire to know. Its interest in contemporary accounts of curiosity does not entail neglect of the conceptual history of this notion from antiquity to the present. Its focus on cultural and scientific appreciations of curiosity is global rather than local and inclusive of standpoints beyond established divisions such as the “modern versus postmodern” or the “analytic versus continental”. The book offers fresh and unique engagements with what motivates us to ask questions and how this motivation operates from an ethical, cultural and political point of view.