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Epistemic relativism, scepticism, pluralism. [PDF]
Synthese, 2017 There are a number of debates that are relevant to questions concerning objectivity in science. One of the eldest, and still one of the most intensely fought, is the debate over epistemic relativism. -All forms of epistemic relativism commit themselves to the view that it is impossible to show in a neutral, non-question-begging, way that one "epistemic
Kusch M.
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Epistemic Relativism and Pluralism [PDF]
, 2017 Paul Boghossian and Markus Seidel hold that epistemic relativism involves a commitment to the existence of “many fundamentally different, genuinely alternative epistemic systems” that are all equally correct. Boghossian claims to find this view in Richard Rorty’s discussion of the conflict between Galileo and the Catholic Church.
A Koyré +19 more
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Thomas Kuhn’s Incommensurability and Relativism [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2022 One of the central notions in Thomas Kuhn’s thought is the notion of incommensurability. Generally, we can distinguish two kinds of incommensurability: methodological and semantic incommensurability.
Hassan Amiriara
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Comparison of Epistemological system's with Methodological Benchmarks in Spatial Planning [PDF]
جغرافیا و توسعه, 2020 The subject of paper is the study of the epistemology of spatial planning (classical rationality, postmodern relativism and pluralism - critical rationality).
Ali Mkhtari Karchegani +2 more
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IS L. WITTGENSTEIN A PHILOSOPHER OF ANALYTIC OR HERMENEUTIC?
Problemos, 1999 The purpose of the article is to show a contraversion of analytic and hermeneutic, the philosophy of explanation and understanding on basis early (Tractatus Logico Philosophicus) and late L. Wittgenstains (Philosophical Investigations) masterpieces. The
Tomas Kačerauskas
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The Objectivity of Science [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023 The idea that science is objective, or able to achieve objectivity, is in large part responsible for the role that science plays within society. But what is objectivity? The idea of objectivity is ambiguous.
Howard Sankey
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Boghossian, Bellarmine, and Galileo: Adjudication and epistemic relativism
Dialectica, 2021 Many prominent arguments for epistemic relativism take their departure from the observation that a certain kind of epistemic symmetry is present in particular empirical cases.
Wim Vanrie, Maarten Van Dyck
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Does Logic Decolonization involve having a Relativistic approach to Logical Principles?
Revista Opinião Filosófica, 2023 The concept of “decolonization” has been widely and erroneously used to the point that it has lost its meaning. Whenever decolonization is invoked, there seems to be disagreement between the universalist and relativist camps. While the debate continues,
Paschal Ukpaka
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God beyond the Boundary-Stones of Thought
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2020 In this paper, I make the case for epistemic relativism: the radical view that all human knowledge/truth is relative. I extend the application of epistemic relativism to include necessary laws such as the laws of logic.
Abbas Ahsan
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The Negative Aha-Moment, or: Anticipating the Need for Dialogical Tolerance
Religions, 2022 Kippbild hermeneutics, developed on the basis of Wittgenstein’s model of Kippbilder, can be understood as a specific postmodern method of coping with (religious) conflicts by relativizing their differences as different ways as seeing as.
Luca Di Blasi
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