Metaepistemology and Relativism

Metaepistemology and Relativism
Title Metaepistemology and Relativism PDF eBook
Author J. Carter
Publisher Springer
Pages 313
Release 2016-04-12
Genre Music
ISBN 1137336641

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Is knowledge relative? Many academics across the humanities say that it is. However those who work in mainstream epistemology generally consider that it is not. Metaepistemology and Relativism questions whether the kind of anti-relativistic background that underlies typical projects in mainstream epistemology can on closer inspection be vindicated.

Metaepistemology

Metaepistemology
Title Metaepistemology PDF eBook
Author Conor McHugh
Publisher
Pages 225
Release 2018
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0198805365

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This edited volume advances the new subdiscipline of metaepistemology by drawing on the sophisticated frameworks that have been developed in metaethics concerning practical normativity. Chapters examine whether these theories can be applied to epistemic normativity and consider what this may tell us about both epistemic and practical normaitivity.

Metaepistemology

Metaepistemology
Title Metaepistemology PDF eBook
Author Christos Kyriacou
Publisher Springer
Pages 319
Release 2018-09-19
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 3319933698

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This book contains twelve chapters by leading and up-and-coming philosophers on metaepistemology, that is, on the nature, existence and authority of epistemic facts. One of the central divides in metaepistemology is between epistemic realists and epistemic anti-realists. Epistemic realists think that epistemic facts (such as the fact that you ought to believe what your evidence supports) exist independently of human judgements and practices, and that they have authority over our judgements and practices. Epistemic anti-realists think that, if epistemic facts exist at all, they are grounded in human judgements and practices, and gain any authority they have from our judgements and practices. This book considers both epistemic realist and anti-realist perspectives, as well as perspectives that 'transcend' the realism/anti-realism dichotomy. As such, it constitutes the 'state of the art' with regard to metaepistemology, and will shape the debate in years to come.

Epistemic Relativism

Epistemic Relativism
Title Epistemic Relativism PDF eBook
Author M. Seidel
Publisher Springer
Pages 470
Release 2014-04-13
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1137377895

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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.

Epistemology Futures

Epistemology Futures
Title Epistemology Futures PDF eBook
Author Stephen Hetherington
Publisher Clarendon Press
Pages 252
Release 2006-03-16
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0191534226

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How might epistemology build upon its past and present, so as to be better in the future? Epistemology Futures takes bold steps towards answering that question. What methods will best serve epistemology? Which phenomena and concepts deserve more attention from it? Are there approaches and assumptions that have impeded its progress until now? This volume contains provocative essays by prominent epistemologists, presenting many new ideas for possible improvements in how to do epistemology. Doubt is cast upon the powers of conceptual analysis and of epistemological intuition. Surprising aspects of knowledge are noticed. What is it? What is it not? Scepticism's limits are traced. What threatens us as potential knowers? What does not? The nature and special significance of inquiry, of normative virtues, of understanding, and of disagreement are elucidated, all with an eye on sharpening epistemology's future focus. There is definite insight and potential foresight. How might real epistemological progress occur in the future? Epistemology Futures offers some intriguing clues.

Extended Epistemology

Extended Epistemology
Title Extended Epistemology PDF eBook
Author J. Adam Carter
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 373
Release 2018
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0198769814

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Extended Cognition examines the way in which features of a subject's cognitive environment can become constituent parts of the cognitive process itself. This volume explores the epistemological ramifications of this idea, bringing together academics from a variety of different areas, to investigate the very idea of an extended epistemology

The Philosophy of Group Polarization

The Philosophy of Group Polarization
Title The Philosophy of Group Polarization PDF eBook
Author Fernando Broncano-Berrocal
Publisher Routledge
Pages 138
Release 2021-02-15
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1000342867

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Group polarization—the tendency of groups to incline toward more extreme positions than initially held by their individual members—has been rigorously studied by social psychologists, though in a way that has overlooked important philosophical questions. This is the first book-length treatment of group polarization from a philosophical perspective. The phenomenon of group polarization raises several important metaphysical and epistemological questions. From a metaphysical point of view, can group polarization, understood as an epistemic feature of a group, be reduced to epistemic features of its individual members? Relatedly, from an epistemological point of view, is group polarization best understood as a kind of cognitive bias or rather in terms of intellectual vice? This book compares four models that combine potential answers to the metaphysical and epistemological questions. The models considered are: group polarization as (i) a collective bias; (ii) a summation of individual epistemic vices; (iii) a summation of individual biases; and (iv) a collective epistemic vice. Ultimately, the authors defend a collective vice model of group polarization over the competing alternatives. The Philosophy of Group Polarization will be of interest to students and researchers working in epistemology, particularly those working on social epistemology, collective epistemology, social ontology, virtue epistemology, and distributed cognition. It will also be of interest to those working on issues in political epistemology, applied epistemology, and on topics at the intersection of epistemology and ethics.