Toward New Philosophical Explorations of the Epistemic Desire to Know: Just Curious about Curiosity
Marianna Papastephanou
Mar 2019 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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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.
About the author
Marianna Papastephanou teaches Philosophy of Education in the Department of Education at the University of Cyprus. She is also Professor II in the Department of Education at the University of Oslo, Norway. She studied and taught at the University of Cardiff, Wales, and her research interests include political philosophy, the modern-versus-postmodern divide, utopia, and the Frankfurt School. Her recent publications include Thinking Differently About Cosmopolitanism: Theory, Eccentricity and a Globalized World (2015) and, as editor, Cosmopolitanism: Educational, Philosophical and Historical Perspectives (2016).
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