Author: P. K. Feyerabend
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: relativism, science, knowledge
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $35.99
ISBN-10: 0521057272
ISBN-13: 9780521057271

This third volume of Paul Feyerabend’s philosophical papers, which gathers together work originally published between 1960 and 1980, offers a range of his characteristically exciting treatments of classic questions in the philosophy of science, including theoretical pluralism, the relationship between theory and observation, the distinction between science and myth, the role of science in society, and the vexed question of the nature of scientific method. The volume is completed by a substantial introduction and a comprehensive list of Feyerabend’s works.

Author: Robert L. HEATH
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Keywords: relativism, realism
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 1986-06-01
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0865542317
ISBN-13: 9780865542310

Author: Maria Baghramian
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: philosophy, problems, relativism
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2004-09-27
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0415161495
ISBN-13: 9780415161497

Baghramian offers a critical analysis of relativism through discussions on the historical account of relativistic doctrines, the various types of relativism and appraises the most influential on-going debates on the subject. Also included are discussions on Donald Davidson, the neo-pragmatic defense, Plato, Aristotle, Montaigne, the empiricists, Kant, Nietzsche and Wittgenstein.

Author: Ernest Gellner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: sciences, social, relativism
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 1987-02-27
List price: $43.00
ISBN-10: 0521337984
ISBN-13: 9780521337984

This volume of essays deals with the problem of relativism, in particular cultural relativism. If our society knows better than other societies, how do we know that it knows better? There is a profound irony in the fact that this self-doubt has become most acute in the one civilisation that has persuaded the rest of the world to emulate it. The claim to cognitive superiority is often restricted, of course, to the limited sphere of natural science and technology; and that immediately raises the second main theme of this volume - the differences between the human and natural sciences. These essa

Author: Paul A. Boghossian
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: constructivism, relativism, knowledge
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2006-04-27
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 019928718X
ISBN-13: 9780199287185

Relativist and constructivist conceptions of truth and knowledge have become orthodoxy in vast stretches of the academic world in recent times. In his long-awaited first book, Paul Boghossian critically examines such views and exposes their fundamental flaws. Boghossian focuses on three different ways of reading the claim that knowledge is socially constructed--one as a thesis about truth and two about justification. And he rejects all three. The intuitive, common-sense view is that there is a way the world is that is independent of human opinion; and that we are capable of arriving

Author: Paul Boghossian
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: constructivism, relativism, knowledge
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2007-12-07
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0199230412
ISBN-13: 9780199230419

The idea that science is just one more way of knowing the world and that there are other, radically different, yet equally valid ways, has taken deep root in academia. In Fear of Knowledge, Paul Boghossian tears these relativist theories of knowledge to shreds. He argues forcefully for the intuitive, common-sense view--that the world exists independent of human opinion and that there is a way to arrive at beliefs about the world that are objectively reasonable to anyone capable of appreciating the relevant evidence, regardless of their social or cultural perspective. This short, lucid, witty b

Author: James Harris
Publisher: Open Court
Keywords: method, defense, philosophical, relativism
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 1999-01-11
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0812692020
ISBN-13: 9780812692020

Recent decades have witnessed the extraordinary growth of radical relativism, a doctrine which now dominates the entire culture, from popular music to journalism and from religion to school curricula. According to the radical relativist creed, any proposition can be true or false in relation to a chosen framework, the evaluation of fundamental theories or ’paradigms’ is beyond argument, there are no universal standards of rationality, and, methodologically, ’Anything goes!’. As James Harris explains in Against Relativism, the new relativism undoes the work of the Enligh