Cognitive Relativism and Social Science

ISBN-13: 9781138508231 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 325 str.

Diederick Raven

Opis

Modern epistomology has been dominated by an empiricist theory of knowledge that assumes a direct individualistic relationship between the knowing subject and the object of knowledge. Truth is held to be universal, and non-individualistic social and cultural factors are considered sources of distortion of true knowledge. Since the late 1950s, this

Spis treści

Part One Cognitive Relativism: Rules of Argument and Theoretical Problems 1. Social Scientific Epistemological Discourse: The Problem of Relativism 2. Psychological versus Structural Validity: The Case of Ethnoscience 3. How Useful Is Anthropological Self-Reflection? 4. Conceptual Variation and Conceptual Relativism in the Social Sciences 5. A Neglected Giant: Max Weber and the Strong Program Part Two Cognitive Relativism and the Philosophy of Knowledge 6. Science Beyond Realism and Relativism 7. Defense of Cognitive Relativism: Realism, Idealism and Nominalism 8. Realism, Relativism and Finitism 9. Relativity as Contestation Part Three Substantive Issues: Implications and Applications of Cognitive Relativism 10. Relativism, Specificity and Universals 11. Objectivism versus Relativism: What Are We Arguing About? 12. Dreamtime: Relativism and Irrationality in the Work of Hans Peter Duerr 13. Planning in a Rocking Boat 14. Relativism, Morality, and Feminist Thought, Conclusion

O autorze

Diederick Raven is assistant professor at Utrecht University in Holland. He is the author of On the Edge of Reality.