When in Rome : an introduction to relativism and knowledge /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©1983.
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Colección: | SUNY series in philosophy.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter 1: The problem of knowledge
- Knowledge, who needs it?
- "I'm from Missouri
- show me"
- Have a seat
- Belief, everybody's got one
- The foundations of knowledge
- Chapter 2: Naive Relativism
- Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: subjective knowledge
- Subjective evidence: a philosophical dilemma
- Different strokes for different folks: abuses
- The problem of evidence
- Chapter 3: Context relativism
- The importance of context: three examples
- Argument from uniqueness: the relativist's challenge
- Philosophers at work
- Subject and object
- It all depends on what you mean: abuses
- Increasing our knowledge of the world
- Chapter 4: Cultural relativism
- The argument from language
- Social scientists at work: Benedict and Marx
- The philosopher's dilemma returns: the problem of intersubjectivity
- Tools of evidence: confirmation and explanation
- Pseudo-generalization/pseudo-knowledge: abuses
- Science and knowledge
- Chapter 5: Empirical knowledge
- A modification
- Dialogue with the popular relativist
- A final defense of objectivity and universality.