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Rethinking Epistemic Relativism [PDF]
Metaphilosophy, 2019 Abstract“Relativism” is often treated as a dirty word in philosophy, but relativistic theories are not entirely unappealing—they have features that might be tempting if they weren't thought to be outweighed by problematic consequences. The aim of this paper is to rethink both our attitude to epistemic relativism and the basic features of the view ...
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Defusing epistemic relativism [PDF]
Synthese, 2008 This paper explores the question of whether there is an interesting form of specifically epistemic relativism available, a position which can lend support to claims of a broadly relativistic nature but which is not committed to relativism about truth. It is argued that the most plausible rendering of such a view turns out not to be the radical thesis ...
Duncan Pritchard
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Methodological Incommensurability and Epistemic Relativism [PDF]
Topoi, 2012 This paper revisits one of the key ideas developed in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. In particular, it explores the methodological form of incommensurability which may be found in the original edition of Structure. It is argued that such methodological incommensurability leads to a form of epistemic relativism.
Howard Sankey
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Epistemic modals, relativism and assertion
Philosophical Studies, 2006 I think that there are good reasons to adopt a relativist semantics for epistemic modal claims such as ``the treasure might be under the palm tree'', according to which such utterances determine a truth value relative to something finer-grained than just a world (or a pair).
Andy Egan
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Epistemology and Domination: Problems with the Coloniality of Knowledge Thesis in Latin American Decolonial Theory [PDF]
Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2020 Latin American decolonial theory is built around the thesis of the “coloniality of knowledge”, which claims that the socio-political domination of Latin America and other regions of the global periphery by European countries and the United States is ...
Paul Anthony Chambers
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Heliyon, 2021 The application of the mass-energy-information equivalence principle developed after the experimentally demonstrated Landauer's principle on thermodynamics, entropy, and information is an unexplored but promising path in search of objectivity and ...
Andreas Y. Troumbis
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Aufklärung, 2019 The present paper introduces four fundamental issues within the framework of epistemic relativism: (a) the lack of precision in the concept of knowing; (b) the changes in the demands between context of use and of evaluation; (c) the violation of the real
Rodrigo Laera
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New Horizons for a Theory of Epistemic Modals [PDF]
, 2019 Recent debate over the semantics and pragmatics of epistemic modals has focused on intuitions about cross-contextual truth-value assessments. In this paper, we advocate a different approach to evaluating theories of epistemic modals. Our strategy focuses
Khoo, Justin, Phillips, Jonathan
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Expressivism, Relativism and the analytic equivalence test
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 The purpose of this paper is to show that, pace (Field 2009, 252), MacFarlane’s assessment relativism and expressivism should be sharply distinguished.
Maria J. Frapolli +2 more
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, 2016 An account of meta-epistemic defeaters—distinct from traditional (first-order) epistemic defeaters—is motivated and defended, drawing from case studies involving epistemic error-theory (e.g., Olson 2011, Reasons for belief; cf., Streumer 2012, J Philos ...
Carter, J. Adam
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