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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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, 2019 Bimal Krishna Matilal (1935-1991) was a Harvard-educated Indian philosopher best known for his contributions to logic, but who also wrote on wide variety of topics, including metaethics.
Bommarito, Nicolas, King, Alex
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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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The Risk of Eroding the Foundations of Human Rights
Musica Docta, 2021 This contribution starts from the historical process that led to the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948, based on that of 1789), followed by increasingly specific ’Declarations’. Over the years, with the global expansion of the UN, the rights
Raffale Romanelli
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Interpretive Social Sciences; Cognition and Interpretation [PDF]
Religion & Communication, 2007 Despite a fundamental gap between social sciences and other types of sciences, primary considerations are of hiqh importance, to the extent that a lot of philosophers of science are after a distinetion between these on the basis of cognitive and ...
Asghar Eftekhari
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The Incoherence of Moral Relativism [PDF]
, 2020 : This paper is a response to Park Seungbae’s article, “Defence of Cultural Relativism”. Some of the typical criticisms of moral relativism are the following: moral relativism is erroneously committed to the principle of tolerance, which is a universal ...
Alvaro, Carlo
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Assessing the Irrelevance of Relativism in African Philosophy in Contemporary Africa [PDF]
E-Journal of Religious and Theological StudiesThe paper focuses on current research that has suggested that Africa is experiencing a moral decline, which has been a fact for several years. The cultural sense of African societies has also been called into doubt in the twentieth century, with many ...
Phemelo Olifile Marumo
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Foundations of Physics, 2000 Special relativity theory is generalized to two or more ``maximal'' signalling speeds. This framework is discussed in three contexts: (i) as a scenario for superluminal signalling and motion, (ii) as the possibility of two or more ``light'' cones due to the a ``birefringent'' vaccum, and (iii) as a further extension of conventionality beyond synchrony.
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Perspectivism and relativism: the concept of relation in the Nietzschean conception of knowledge
O Que Nos Faz PensarNietzsche’s perspectivism is considered a reference by scholars of relativism. However, some specialists in Nietzschean philosophy do not seem to attach any importance to the theme of relativism, and others defend the thesis that perspectivism is ...
Eder Ricardo Corbanezi
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Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2021 Culture as a dynamic system of meaningful relations can naturally accommodate a hermeneutic analysis. In this essay, the notion of Gadamer’s hermeneutics as involving interpretable meaning throughout experiential reality permits a natural concordance ...
Iñaki Xavier Larrauri Pertierra
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