RT Article
T1 Zhuangzi as externalist: Reconciling two interpretations of the Happy Fish debate
JF Asian philosophy
VO 33
IS 4
SP 363
OP 376
A1 Villaver, Ranie B.
LA English
PB Carfax
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1869085701
AB In the English language contemporary literature, there are mainly two philosophical approaches to interpretation of the Zhuangzi’s Happy Fish debate. The two approaches to the famous passage are the logical, which focuses on analysis, and the non-analytic, which focuses on context. The approaches are in tension with one another since one implies that the other is wrong. This paper suggests that the view that Zhuangzi holds an externalist view of justification according to the debate (here abbreviated as ZE) reconciles the approaches. ZE is the interpretation that says that in the debate, Zhuangzi is an externalist, in particular, a process reliabilist, because he takes sense perception as means to attaining knowledge. ZE reconciles the two approaches in that in each of them ZE is implicit. Ultimately, this paper not only offers a perspective about the two approaches, it also offers a view about the debate.
K1 Externalism
K1 Happy Fish debate
K1 Zhuangzi
K1 Daoism
K1 Chinese philosophy
DO 10.1080/09552367.2023.2247634