(Anti-)Epistemología

This article explores the critique of the epistemological tradition that Charles Taylor identifies in the works of Hegel, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Merleau-Ponty. These authors point to a conception of reason that is ontologically reduced to its procedural function. By contrast, they offer a situated conception of the subject and an understanding of the human being as radically embedded—as a being-in-the-world, immersed in a culture and a form of life—which stands opposed to the purported disengagement promoted by their counterparts in the debate.