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Epistemic Relativism and Scepticism: Unwinding the Braid

Autor Steven Bland
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This book confronts the threats of epistemic relativism and Pyrrhonian scepticism to analytic philosophy.  Epistemic relativists reject absolute notions of knowledge and justification, while sceptics claim that knowledge and justification of any kind are unattainable.  If either of these views is correct, then there can be no objective basis for thinking that one set of methods does a better job of delivering accurate information than any other set of methods. Philosophers have generally sought to resist these threats by responding to the argument that seems to motivate both positions: the Agrippan trilemma.  Steven Bland argues that this is a mistaken strategy. He surveys the most influential responses to the Agrippan trilemma, and shows that none of them succeeds in undermining epistemic relativism.  Bland also offers a new, dialectical strategy of challenging epistemic relativism by uncovering how epistemic methods depend on one another for their applications.  By means of this novel analysis, the book concludes that there are principled reasons to prefer naturalistic to non-naturalistic methods, even if these reasons do little to ease the threat of scepticism.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319946726
ISBN-10: 3319946722
Pagini: 153
Ilustrații: XII, 234 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2018
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Principal Argument for Epistemic Relativism.- Chapter 3: Epistemic Relativism in the Analytic Tradition.- Chapter 4: Foundationalism and Coherentism.- Chapter 5: Externalism.- Chapter 6: Particularism and Methodism.- Chapter 7: The Charge of Incoherence.- Chapter 8: The Wittgensteinian Position.- Chapter 9: A Dialectical Strategy.- Chapter 10: Conclusions.

Notă biografică

Steven Bland is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Huron University College at Western University, Ontario, Canada.  His work focuses on foundational issues in epistemology, the philosophy of science, and early analytic philosophy.

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This book confronts the threats of epistemic relativism and Pyrrhonian scepticism to analytic philosophy.  Epistemic relativists reject absolute notions of knowledge and justification, while sceptics claim that knowledge and justification of any kind are unattainable.  If either of these views is correct, then there can be no objective basis for thinking that one set of methods does a better job of delivering accurate information than any other set of methods. Philosophers have generally sought to resist these threats by responding to the argument that seems to motivate both positions: the Agrippan trilemma.  Steven Bland argues that this is a mistaken strategy. He surveys the most influential responses to the Agrippan trilemma, and shows that none of them succeeds in undermining epistemic relativism.  Bland also offers a new, dialectical strategy of challenging epistemic relativism by uncovering how epistemic methods depend on one another for their applications.  By means of this novel analysis, the book concludes that there are principled reasons to prefer naturalistic to non-naturalistic methods, even if these reasons do little to ease the threat of scepticism.

Caracteristici

Introduces a new strategy for resisting epistemic relativism Written in an accessible style Explores much of the recent scholarship on epistemic relativism