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Assertion, action, and context [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
A common objection to both contextualism and relativism about knowledge ascriptions is that they threaten knowledge norms of assertion and action. Consequently, if there is good reason to accept knowledge norms of assertion or action, there is good ...
Hannon, Michael, McKenna, Robin
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Relativism and our warrant for scientific theories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
We depend upon the community for justified belief in scientific theory. This dependence can suggest that our individual belief in scientific theory is justified because the community believes it to be justified.
Faulkner, P.
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Introduction: Epistemic Relativism [PDF]

open access: yesEpisteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology, 2007
This issue of Episteme is devoted to the topic of epistemic relativism. It includes a symposium on Paul Boghossian's treatment of epistemic relativism in chapters 5 through 7 of his new book, Fear of Knowledge (2006). The symposium centers on Boghossian's argument against epistemic relativism in chapter 6 of that book.
openaire   +1 more source

Ecumenical alethic pluralism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Ecumenical Alethic Pluralism is a novel kind of alethic pluralism. It is ecumenical in that it widens the scope of alethic pluralism by allowing for a normatively deflated truth property alongside a variety of normatively robust truth properties.
Ferrari, Filippo, Moruzzi, Sebastiano
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Where constructionism and critical realism converge: interrogating the domain of epistemological relativism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The paper interrogates the status, nature and significance of epistemological relativism as a key element of constructionism and critical realism. It finds that epistemological relativism is espoused by authorities in critical realism and marginalized or
A Hesketh   +83 more
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The Problem of Post-Truth. Rethinking the Relationship between Truth and Politics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
‘Post-truth’ is a failed concept, both epistemically and politically because its simplification of the relationship between truth and politics cripples our understanding and encourages authoritarianism. This makes the diagnosis of our ‘post-truth era’ as
Vogelmann, Frieder
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
wiley   +1 more source

Report and Analysis on Ayatullah Jawadi Amuli’s Viewpoint about the Ethical Relativism [PDF]

open access: yesاخلاق وحیانی, 2011
Ascription and moral relativism are of important issues throughout the history of philosophy. Some people impressed by the findings of cultural differences; societies; customs; And even personal tastes, with rejecting every kind of generalism and ...
Mustafa Salatin, Muhsen Jawadi
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System as a Unifying Process: An Onto‐Epistemic Notion of System

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article proposes an onto‐epistemic notion of system as a relational process of unifying a multiplicity of actuals and abstractions into an actual unity, thereby encompassing concreteness and abstraction onto the same plane. This notion rejects the opposition between constructivism and realism within systems studies, the excessive focus on
Felipe Rodrigues Oliveira e Silva   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reviving Rationality Theory: a comprehensive framework for reconstructing rationality in the age of crisis [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations
A Reviving Rationality Theory offers a knowledge-based and practical framework to rebuild rational thinking in response to the complex crisis of our time.
Reza Gholami
doaj   +1 more source

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