Social Epistemology and Relativism

著者名：Ashton, Natalie Alana (EDT)/Kusch, Martin (EDT)/McKenna, Robin (EDT)/Sodoma, Katharina Anna (EDT)

Routledge（2020/03/09発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9781032336862
• eISBN：9780429581274

Description

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.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Natalie Alana Ashton, Martin Kusch, Robin McKenna and Katharina Anna Sodoma

Part I: Foundational Issues in Social Epistemology

2. Hinge Disagreement

Annalisa Coliva and Michele Palmira

3. Norms of Inquiry in the Theory of Justified Belief

Sanford C. Goldberg

4. Relativism: The Most Ecumenical View?

Alexandra Plakias

5. Naturalism, Psychologism, Relativism

Hilary Kornblith

Part II: Feminist Epistemology and Social Epistemology

6. Relativism in Feminist Epistemologies

Natalie Alana Ashton

7. Feminist Epistemology and Pragmatic Encroachment

Robin McKenna

8. Charity, Peace, and the Social Epistemology of Science Controversies

Sharyn Clough

9. Epistemic Responsibility and Relativism

Kristina Rolin

Part III: Social Epistemology and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge

10. Sociologism and Relativism

David Bloor

11. Sociologistic Accounts of Normativity

Paul Boghossian

12. Relativism in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge Revisited

Martin Kusch