Zhuangzi as externalist: Reconciling two interpretations of the Happy Fish debate

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 ar...

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Autore principale: Villaver, Ranie B. (Autore)
Tipo di documento: Elettronico Articolo
Lingua:Inglese
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Pubblicazione: Carfax 2023
In: Asian philosophy
Anno: 2023, Volume: 33, Fascicolo: 4, Pagine: 363-376
Altre parole chiave:B Zhuangzi
B Daoism
B Chinese philosophy
B Externalism
B Happy Fish debate
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Riepilogo: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.
ISSN:1469-2961
Comprende:Enthalten in: Asian philosophy
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/09552367.2023.2247634