Epistemic Relativism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Epistemic Relativism write by M. Seidel. This book was released on 2014-04-13. Epistemic Relativism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Markus Seidel provides a detailed critique of epistemic relativism in the sociology of scientific knowledge. In addition to scrutinizing the main arguments for epistemic relativism he provides an absolutist account that nevertheless aims at integrating the relativist's intuition.
Metaepistemology and Relativism
Metaepistemology and Relativism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Metaepistemology and Relativism write by J. Carter. This book was released on 2016-04-12. Metaepistemology and Relativism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is knowledge relative? Many academics across the humanities say that it is. However those who work in mainstream epistemology generally consider that it is not. Metaepistemology and Relativism questions whether the kind of anti-relativistic background that underlies typical projects in mainstream epistemology can on closer inspection be vindicated.
Fear of Knowledge
Fear of Knowledge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fear of Knowledge write by Paul Boghossian. This book was released on 2007-10-11. Fear of Knowledge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The academic world has been plagued in recent years by scepticism about truth and knowledge. Paul Boghossian, in his long-awaited first book, sweeps away relativist claims that there is no such thing as objective truth or knowledge, but only truth or knowledge from a particular perspective. He demonstrates clearly that such claims don't even make sense. Boghossian focuses on three different ways of reading the claim that knowledge is socially constructed - one as a thesis about truth and two about justification. And he rejects all three. The intuitive, common-sense view is that there is a way things are that is independent of human opinion, and that we are capable of arriving at belief about how things are that is objectively reasonable, binding on anyone capable of appreciating the relevant evidence regardless of their social or cultural perspective. Difficult as these notions may be, it is a mistake to think that recent philosophy has uncovered powerful reasons for rejecting them. This short, lucid, witty book shows that philosophy provides rock-solid support for common sense against the relativists; it will prove provocative reading throughout the discipline and beyond.
Social Epistemology and Relativism
Social Epistemology and Relativism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Epistemology and Relativism write by Natalie Alana Ashton. This book was released on 2020-03-09. Social Epistemology and Relativism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book to explore the connections and interactions between social epistemology and epistemic relativism. The essays in the volume are organized around three distinct philosophical approaches to this topic: 1) foundational questions concerning deep disagreement, the variability of epistemic norms, and the relationship between relativism and reliabilism; 2) the role of relativistic themes in feminist social epistemology; and 3) the relationship between the sociology of knowledge, philosophy of science, and social epistemology. Recent trends in social epistemology seek to rectify earlier work that conceptualized cognitive achievements primarily on the level of isolated individuals. Relativism insists that epistemic judgements or beliefs are justified or unjustified only relative to systems of standards—there is not neutral way of adjudicating between them. By bringing together these two strands of epistemology, this volume offers unique perspectives on a number of central epistemological questions. Social Epistemology and Relativism will be of interest to researchers working in epistemology, feminist philosophy, and the sociology of knowledge.
Relativism
Relativism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Relativism write by Maria Baghramian. This book was released on 2019-09-30. Relativism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Relativism, an ancient philosophical doctrine, is once again a topic of heated debate. In this book, Maria Baghramian and Annalisa Coliva present the recent arguments for and against various forms of relativism. The first two chapters introduce the conceptual and historical contours of relativism. These are followed by critical investigations of relativism about truth, conceptual relativism, epistemic relativism, and moral relativism. The concluding chapter asks whether it is possible to make sense of relativism as a philosophical thesis. The book introduces readers to the main types of relativism and the arguments in their favor. It also goes beyond the expository material to engage in more detailed critical responses to the key positions and authors under discussion. Including chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary, Relativism is essential reading for students of philosophy as well as those in related disciplines where relativism is studied, such as anthropology, sociology, and politics.
