This article offers an examination of posthumanist epistemology. Building on wider claims that `posthumanist' theorists risk disavowing the historicity of their concepts, the article asks why the posthumanist image of the researcher has proven attractive to humanities and social sciences scholarship in recent years. In examining this question the article suggests that posthumanist epistemology is premised upon a claim to the innocence of knowledge, a notion that the article traces back to the origins of modern philosophy in the work of John Locke and his view of the mind as a blank slate. Such an analysis will serve to underline the argument that claims to innocence are themselves strategically deployed epistemic tools that have political implications.

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后人文主义白板

本文对后人类主义认识论进行了考察。基于更广泛的主张，即“后人文主义”理论家冒着否认其概念的历史性的风险，本文询问为什么研究人员的后人文主义形象近年来被证明对人文和社会科学奖学金具有吸引力。在研究这个问题时，文章表明后人类主义认识论的前提是宣称知识是无辜的，这一观点可以追溯到约翰洛克作品中现代哲学的起源以及他将心灵视为白板的观点。 . 这样的分析将有助于强调以下论点，即声称无罪本身就是具有政治含义的战略部署的认知工具。