Knowledge Science And Relativism

Author : Larry Laudan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022621933X
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Relativism written by Larry Laudan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, many members of the intellectual community have embraced a radical relativism regarding knowledge in general and scientific knowledge in particular, holding that Kuhn, Quine, and Feyerabend have knocked the traditional picture of scientific knowledge into a cocked hat. Is philosophy of science, or mistaken impressions of it, responsible for the rise of relativism? In this book, Laudan offers a trenchant, wide-ranging critique of cognitive relativism and a thorough introduction to major issues in the philosophy of knowledge.

Author : P. K. Feyerabend
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521641296
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge, Science and Relativism written by P. K. Feyerabend and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-05-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Feyerabend's philosophical papers gathers together work originally published between 1960 and 1980.

Author : Richard Schantz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311032590X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Problem of Relativism in the Sociology of (Scientific) Knowledge written by Richard Schantz and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises original articles by leading authors – from philosophy as well as sociology – in the debate around relativism in the sociology of (scientific) knowledge. Its aim has been to bring together several threads from the relevant disciplines and to cover the discussion from historical and systematic points of view. Among the contributors are Maria Baghramian, Barry Barnes, Martin Endreß, Hubert Knoblauch, Richard Schantz and Harvey Siegel.

Author : Paul Boghossian
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191622753
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fear of Knowledge written by Paul Boghossian and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2007-10-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The academic world has been plagued in recent years by scepticism about truth and knowledge. Paul Boghossian, in his long-awaited first book, sweeps away relativist claims that there is no such thing as objective truth or knowledge, but only truth or knowledge from a particular perspective. He demonstrates clearly that such claims don't even make sense. Boghossian focuses on three different ways of reading the claim that knowledge is socially constructed - one as a thesis about truth and two about justification. And he rejects all three. The intuitive, common-sense view is that there is a way things are that is independent of human opinion, and that we are capable of arriving at belief about how things are that is objectively reasonable, binding on anyone capable of appreciating the relevant evidence regardless of their social or cultural perspective. Difficult as these notions may be, it is a mistake to think that recent philosophy has uncovered powerful reasons for rejecting them. This short, lucid, witty book shows that philosophy provides rock-solid support for common sense against the relativists; it will prove provocative reading throughout the discipline and beyond.

Author : M. Seidel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137377895
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epistemic Relativism written by M. Seidel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-13 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Markus Seidel provides a detailed critique of epistemic relativism in the sociology of scientific knowledge. In addition to scrutinizing the main arguments for epistemic relativism he provides an absolutist account that nevertheless aims at integrating the relativist's intuition.

Author : Larry Laudan
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813324692
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Positivism And Relativism written by Larry Laudan and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1996-02-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the decline of logical positivism after 1950, much work in the philosophy of science has careened toward an uncritical relativistic approach. Many scholars, faced with a choice between a narrowly restrictive positivism and an “anything goes” relativism, have sought to find a middle path in the debate.In this collection of papers, several of which appear here for the first time, Larry Laudan argues that resolving this dilemma involves not some centrist compromise position but rather a conception of scientific knowledge that goes beyond both positivism and relativism. This conception must begin with the rejection of assumptions about knowledge that these apparently opposed positions hold in common. Relativism, for Laudan, is a particularly self-defeating form of neopositivism.In showing the connections between these two approaches and clarifying the positions of such influential philosophers as Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend, Laudan does the great service of laying the foundation for an account of science that rejects the errors of positivism without providing aid and comfort to the enemies of reason. He also takes a fresh look at many other central issues of scientific philosophy, including the science/non-science demarcation, the underdetermination of theory by evidence, and the contested role of social factors in the legitimation of scientific knowledge. Beyond Positivism and Relativism is a major statement about the nature of science and evidence that will command the interest of philosophers of science, epistemologists, sociologists of knowledge, and all who are seriously concerned about science, scientific progress, and the implications for knowledge in many other fields.

Author : Martin Kusch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108981372
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relativism in the Philosophy of Science written by Martin Kusch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Relativism versus absolutism' is one of the fundamental oppositions that have dominated reflections about science for much of its (modern) history. Often these reflections have been inseparable from wider social-political concerns regarding the position of science in society. Where does this debate stand in the philosophy and sociology of science today? And how does the 'relativism question' relate to current concerns with 'post truth' politics? In Relativism in the Philosophy of Science, Martin Kusch examines some of the most influential relativist proposals of the last fifty years, and the controversies they have triggered. He argues that defensible forms of relativism all deny that any sense can be made of a scientific result being absolutely true or justified, and that they all reject 'anything goes' – that is the thought that all scientific results are epistemically on a par. Kusch concludes by distinguishing between defensible forms of relativism and post-truth thinking.

Author : R. Nola
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400928777
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relativism and Realism in Science written by R. Nola and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively earl- though not always under that name - in the Australasian region. An initial lecturing appointment was made at the University of Melbourne immediately after the Second World War, in 1946, and other appoint ments followed as the subject underwent an expansion during the 1950s and 1960s similar to that which took place in other parts of the world. Today there are major Departments at the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales and the University of Wollongong, and smaller groups active in many other parts of Australia and in New Zealand. "Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science" aims to provide a distinctive publication outlet for Australian and New Zealand scholars working in the general area of history, philosophy and social studies of science. Each volume comprises a group of essays on a connected theme, edited by an Australian or a New Zealander with special expertise in that particular area. Papers address general issues, however, rather than local ones; parochial topics are avoided. Further more, though in each volume a majority of the contributors is from Australia or New Zealand, contributions from elsewhere are by no means ruled out. Quite the reverse, in fact - they are actively encour aged wherever appropriate to the balance of the volume in question.

Author : Ernest Gellner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521337984
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relativism and the Social Sciences written by Ernest Gellner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-02-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers human diversity and change and rejects the usual solutions to problems of relativism. Presents a new mode of inquiry in its stead a mixture of philosophy, history, and anthropology that appears to be more meaningful.

Author : Natalie Alana Ashton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429581270
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Epistemology and Relativism written by Natalie Alana Ashton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to explore the connections and interactions between social epistemology and epistemic relativism. The essays in the volume are organized around three distinct philosophical approaches to this topic: 1) foundational questions concerning deep disagreement, the variability of epistemic norms, and the relationship between relativism and reliabilism; 2) the role of relativistic themes in feminist social epistemology; and 3) the relationship between the sociology of knowledge, philosophy of science, and social epistemology. Recent trends in social epistemology seek to rectify earlier work that conceptualized cognitive achievements primarily on the level of isolated individuals. Relativism insists that epistemic judgements or beliefs are justified or unjustified only relative to systems of standards—there is not neutral way of adjudicating between them. By bringing together these two strands of epistemology, this volume offers unique perspectives on a number of central epistemological questions. Social Epistemology and Relativism will be of interest to researchers working in epistemology, feminist philosophy, and the sociology of knowledge.