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Knowledge from a Human Point of View

Publication year: 2020

ISBN: 978-3-030-27041-4

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This book – as the title suggests – explores some of the historical roots and epistemological ramifications of perspectivism. Perspectivism has recently emerged in philosophy of science as an interesting new position in the debate between scientific realism and anti-realism.


Subject: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Perspectival realism, Ernst Sosa on virtue perspectivism, Conceptual relativism, Standpoint epistemology, Scientific understanding, Explanatory perspectivism, Putnam’s naturalism, American Pragmatists on contextualism, Nietzsche on perspectivism, Kant on perspectivism, anti-realism, Nagelian, Epistemic Circularity, Putnam, Critique of Pure Reason, contextualism, scientific knowledge of nature, Carnap