Islamic Versus Western Conceptions of Knowledge

Conceptions of Knowledge

Transnational conceptions of Islamic community: national and religious subjectivities

A conversation with a friend in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2007 evoked how much the idea of globalisation has permeated ideas of legitimacy in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Almost sharply, this friend said, ‘Don’t forget, the Prophet imagined Islam as global long before anyone was talking about globalisation.’ If being global has become the currency of neoliberal respect, ...

Knowledge and Conceptions of the Knowledge Society

This paper will draw upon research into the conditions under which New Zealand could become a knowledge society by the HUMANZ Knowledge Policy Research Group. This research exists principally as a report commissioned by the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology, Knowledge, Innovation and Creativity: designing a knowledge society for a small, democratic country . This report argues for th...

Young children's conceptions of knowledge

Philosophy Compass. 2018;e12494. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12494 Abstract How should knowledge be analyzed? Compositionally, as having constituents like belief and justification, or as an atomic concept? In making arguments for or against these perspectives, epistemologists have begun to use experimental evidence from developmental psychology and developmental linguistics. If we were to conc...

Aboriginal and Western Conceptions of Mental Health and Illness

This paper forms the foundation for the promotion of mental health with rural Mi’kmaq youth through a community based participatory research project. Western understandings of mental health and illness are compared and contrasted with Aboriginal understandings. Mainstream mental health services that accommodate cultural differences do not speak to the totality of Aboriginal understandings of me...