Knowledge from a human point of view
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Knowledge from a human point of view
（Synthese library, v. 416）
Springer, c2020
Available at / 6 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This open access 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. But there is a lot more to perspectivism than discussions in philosophy of science so far have suggested. Perspectivism is a much broader view that emphasizes how our knowledge (in particular our scientific knowledge of nature) is situated; it is always from a human vantage point (as opposed to some Nagelian "view from nowhere"). This edited collection brings together a diverse team of established and early career scholars across a variety of fields (from the history of philosophy to epistemology and philosophy of science). The resulting nine essays trace some of the seminal ideas of perspectivism back to Kant, Nietzsche, the American Pragmatists, and Putnam, while the second part of the book tackles issues concerning the relation between perspectivism, relativism, and standpoint theories, and the implications of perspectivism for epistemological debates about veritism, epistemic normativity and the foundations of human knowledge.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Ana-Maria Cretu and Michela Massimi
Chapter 1. Attempting to Exit the Human Perspective: A Priori Experimentation in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Rachel Zuckert
Chapter 2. Nietzsche's Epistemic Perspectivism
Steven D. Hales
Chapter 3. Pluralism and Perspectivism in the American Pragmatist Tradition
Matthew J. Brown
Chapter 4. Hilary Putnam on Perspectivism and Naturalism
Mario De Caro
Chapter 5. Scientific Perspectives, Feminist Standpoints, and Non-Silly Relativism
Natalie Alana Ashton
Chapter 6. Perspectives, Questions, and Epistemic Value
Kareem Khalifa and Jared Millson
Chapter 7. Perspectivalism about Knowledge and Error
Nick Treanor
Chapter 8. Virtue Perspectivism, Externalism, and Epistemic Circularity
J. Adam Carter
Chapter 9. Knowledge from a Human Vantage Point
Barry Stroud
by "Nielsen BookData"