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Virtual diversity revisited. [PDF]

open access: yesSoc Stud Sci
Collins H, Evans R, Reyes-Galindo L.
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Epistemic Relativism

2022
This chapter is devoted to the discussion of epistemic relativism (ER), the view that ‘knowledge’-attributions only have truth-conditions relative to a context of assessment. According to this type of relativism ‘knowledge’-attributions resemble ascriptions of predicates of personal taste, such as ‘is tasty’ or ‘is fun’ in being assessment sensitive ...
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Epistemic violence, relativism, and objectivity

Theory & Psychology, 2020
Held (2020) provides an admirable overview of the importance of and challenges associated with epistemic violence. However, likely due to length restraints, she did not attend to an important consideration related to her discussion of epistemic violence: that objective knowledge is not possible. The view that objective knowledge is not possible can be
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Epistemic relativism and semantic blindness

Synthese, 2014
Semantic blindness is the inability to recognize semantic features of terms one can competently use. A theory that implies semantic blindness incurs a burden to explain how one can competently use a term without realizing how the term works. An argument advanced in favor of epistemic relativism is that its main competitors, contextualism and subject ...
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