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Epistemic Relativism, Apriorism, Neoempiricism

1998
Relativism, the first of the three fundamental ideas of the positive spirit (relativism, empiricism, anti-metaphysical objectivism), seems particularly alive today.
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New Relativism: Epistemic Aftermath

2016
This chapter begins by qualifying the epistemologically oriented objections raised in the previous chapter against MacFarlane’s (2005; 2009; 2014) ‘new epistemic relativism’. These objections are conceded not to be ultimately decisive against the view unless we can further defend them to be worse theoretical costs than the costs that are incurred by ...
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Normative Naturalism and Epistemic Relativism

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 2006
In previous work, I defended Larry Laudan against the criticism that the axiological component of his normative naturalism lacks a naturalistic justification. I argued that this criticism depends on an equivocation over the term ‘naturalism’ and that it begs the question against what we are entitled to include in our concept of nature. In this paper, I
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Circularity, Scepticism and Epistemic Relativism

Social Epistemology, 2015
It would seem that an epistemic framework can be justified only by means of a non-circular argument that establishes its truth-conduciveness. The problem of epistemic circularity suggests that no such argument is possible. Externalists and particularists have addressed the problem of scepticism by claiming that epistemically circular arguments can ...
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Can hinge epistemology close the door on epistemic relativism?

SynthÈse, 2021
Oscar A Piedrahita
exaly  

Dialogic Arguments for Epistemic Relativism

2016
Galileo and Cardinal Bellarmine couldn’t agree about the truth of Copernican heliocentricism. But, as Richard Rorty (1979) famously highlighted, they also couldn’t agree about what evidential standards were even relevant to settling the matter. The inability of interlocutors to non-question-beggingly break the deadlock in cases like this — where there ...
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Notes on a complicated relationship: scientific pluralism, epistemic relativism, and stances

SynthÈse, 2020
Sophie Juliane Veigl
exaly  

Epistemic Relativism

2015
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Incommensurability, Circularity and Epistemic Relativism

2016
This chapter outlines and evaluates a strategy for motivating epistemic relativism which draws from considerations to do with the incommensurability of epistemic systems. Such arguments can usefully be understood as beginning in the same place as dialogic arguments.
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Epistemic Relativism

Philosophical Issues, 2004
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