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Book Synopsis Beyond Relativism by : Cynthia Lins Hamlin
Download or read book Beyond Relativism written by Cynthia Lins Hamlin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-01-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that critical realism offers the theory of cognitive rationality a real way of overcoming the limitations of methodological individualism by recognising both the agents' - and the social structure's - causal powers and liabilities. Cynthia Lins Hamlin persuasively argues that critical realism represents a better safeguard against the relativism which springs from the conflation of social reality and our ideas about it. This is an important book for sociologists and anyone working in the social sciences, and for all those concerned with the methodology, and philosophy, of social science.
Book Synopsis Beyond Objectivism and Relativism by : Richard J. Bernstein
Download or read book Beyond Objectivism and Relativism written by Richard J. Bernstein and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing freely and expertly from Continental and analytic traditions, Richard Bernstein examines a number of debates and controversies exemplified in the works of Gadamer, Habermas, Rorty, and Arendt. He argues that a "new conversation" is emerging about human rationality—a new understanding that emphasizes its practical character and has important ramifications both for thought and action.
Book Synopsis Beyond Relativism by : Robert C. Hunt
Download or read book Beyond Relativism written by Robert C. Hunt and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book tackles the problem of comparing phenomena- social roles, forms of activities, institutions- across cultures.
Book Synopsis Relativism and Beyond by : Yoav Ariel
Download or read book Relativism and Beyond written by Yoav Ariel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-03-20 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays in which philosophers of widely different interests grapple with the problem of the relative and the absolute in philosophy and religion. A concluding article tries to advance beyond the simple antithesis to a more sophisticated and adequite conception.
Book Synopsis Dialogues on Relativism, Absolutism, and Beyond by : Michael Krausz
Download or read book Dialogues on Relativism, Absolutism, and Beyond written by Michael Krausz and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-16 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is truth, goodness, or beauty? Can we really define these concepts without the idea of a frame of reference? In the newest addition to the New Dialogues in Philosophy series, Michael Krausz presents fictional dialogues between four former classmates who hold significantly different views about these questions. As they travel in India, a place with unfamiliar concepts and customs, these four friends debate the rightness of relativism and absolutism. Are these concepts irreconcilable? Might there be a better view that goes beyond both of them? These lively discussions provide students with an accessible introduction to one of the most enduring and far-reaching philosophical problems of our age.
Book Synopsis Relativism and Beyond by : Yoav Ariel
Download or read book Relativism and Beyond written by Yoav Ariel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1998 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays in which philosophers of widely different interests grapple with the problem of the relative and the absolute in philosophy and religion. A concluding article tries to advance beyond the simple antithesis to a more sophisticated and adequite conception.
Book Synopsis Ethics, Human Rights and Culture by : X. Li
Download or read book Ethics, Human Rights and Culture written by X. Li and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-01-27 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible, given culturally incongruent perspectives, to validate any common standards of behaviour? Is cultural relativity be a problem when cultures are porous? Can we implement human rights without incorporating the idea into the fabric of culture? This book addresses such questions with an inventive and original understanding of culture.
Book Synopsis The Metaphysics and Ethics of Relativism by : Carol Rovane
Download or read book The Metaphysics and Ethics of Relativism written by Carol Rovane and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relativism is a hotly contested doctrine among philosophers, some of whom regard it as neither true nor false but simply incoherent. As Carol Rovane demonstrates in this analytical tour-de-force, the way to defend relativism is not initially by establishing its truth but by clarifying its content. The Metaphysics and Ethics of Relativism elaborates a doctrine of relativism that has a consistent logical, metaphysical, and practical significance. Relativism is worth debating, Rovane contends, because it bears directly on the moral choices we make in our lives. Three intuitive conceptions of relativism have been influential in philosophical discourse. These include the idea that certain unavoidable disagreements are irresolvable, leading to the conclusion that "both sides are right," and the idea that truth is always relative to context. But the most compelling, Rovane maintains, is the "alternatives intuition." Alternatives are truths that cannot be embraced together because they are not universal. Something other than logical contradiction excludes them. When this is so, logical relations no longer hold among all truth-value-bearers. Some truths will be irreconcilable between individuals even though they are valid in themselves. The practical consequence is that some forms of interpersonal engagement are confined within definite boundaries, and one has no choice but to view what lies beyond those boundaries with what Rovane calls "epistemic indifference." In a very real sense, some people inhabit different worlds--true in themselves, but closed off to belief from those who hold irreducibly incompatible truths.
Download or read book Relativism written by Maria Baghramian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relativism, an ancient philosophical doctrine, is once again a topic of heated debate. In this book, Maria Baghramian and Annalisa Coliva present the recent arguments for and against various forms of relativism. The first two chapters introduce the conceptual and historical contours of relativism. These are followed by critical investigations of relativism about truth, conceptual relativism, epistemic relativism, and moral relativism. The concluding chapter asks whether it is possible to make sense of relativism as a philosophical thesis. The book introduces readers to the main types of relativism and the arguments in their favor. It also goes beyond the expository material to engage in more detailed critical responses to the key positions and authors under discussion. Including chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary, Relativism is essential reading for students of philosophy as well as those in related disciplines where relativism is studied, such as anthropology, sociology, and politics.
Book Synopsis Beyond Positivism And Relativism by : Larry Laudan
Download or read book Beyond Positivism And Relativism written by Larry Laudan and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1996-02-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the decline of logical positivism after 1950, much work in the philosophy of science has careened toward an uncritical relativistic approach. Many scholars, faced with a choice between a narrowly restrictive positivism and an “anything goes” relativism, have sought to find a middle path in the debate.In this collection of papers, several of which appear here for the first time, Larry Laudan argues that resolving this dilemma involves not some centrist compromise position but rather a conception of scientific knowledge that goes beyond both positivism and relativism. This conception must begin with the rejection of assumptions about knowledge that these apparently opposed positions hold in common. Relativism, for Laudan, is a particularly self-defeating form of neopositivism.In showing the connections between these two approaches and clarifying the positions of such influential philosophers as Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend, Laudan does the great service of laying the foundation for an account of science that rejects the errors of positivism without providing aid and comfort to the enemies of reason. He also takes a fresh look at many other central issues of scientific philosophy, including the science/non-science demarcation, the underdetermination of theory by evidence, and the contested role of social factors in the legitimation of scientific knowledge. Beyond Positivism and Relativism is a major statement about the nature of science and evidence that will command the interest of philosophers of science, epistemologists, sociologists of knowledge, and all who are seriously concerned about science, scientific progress, and the implications for knowledge in many other fields.
Book Synopsis Beyond Positivism And Relativism by : Larry Laudan
Download or read book Beyond Positivism And Relativism written by Larry Laudan and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1996-02-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laudan argues that the debate between positivists and post-positivist relativists can only be resolved by seeing that these unacceptable positions rest on the same unexamined set of assumptions. By targeting and critiquing these assumptions, he lays the groundwork for a post-positivist philosophy of science that does not provide aid and comfort to the enemies of reason.
Download or read book Relativism written by Michael Krausz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-06 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume grapple with one of the most intriguing, enduring, and far-reaching philosophical problems of our age. Relativism comes in many varieties. It is often defined as the belief that truth, goodness, or beauty is relative& mdash;relative, that is, to some context or frame of reference& mdash;and that no absolute standards can adjudicate between competing reference frames. This anthology captures the significance and range of relativistic doctrines, rehearsing their virtues and vices and reflecting a spectrum of attitudes toward relativism. Invoking diverse philosophical orientations, these doctrines concern conceptions of relativism in relation to pluralism and moral relativism; facts and conceptual schemes; realism and objectivity; solidarity and rationality; universalism and foundationalism; and feminism and poststructuralism. The thirty-three essays in this book include nine original works and many classical articles.
Download or read book Relativism written by Michael Krausz and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have seen a vigorous revival of interest in relativism - both in support and in opposition. This collection of 21 essays, 16 of which appear in print here for the first time, advances the discussion found in an earlier volume, Relativism: Cognitive and Moral. These present selections focus on philosophical and methodological issues of relativism by exhibiting its varieties and by rehearsing its virtues and vices. The contributions concern relativism in a wide range of practices in the human studies.
Book Synopsis Beyond Relativism by : Roger D. Masters
Download or read book Beyond Relativism written by Roger D. Masters and published by Dartmouth College Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Relativism, Cognitive and Moral by : Jack W. Meiland
Download or read book Relativism, Cognitive and Moral written by Jack W. Meiland and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis A Leftist Ontology by : Carsten Strathausen
Download or read book A Leftist Ontology written by Carsten Strathausen and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich with analyses of concepts from deconstruction, systems theory, and post-Marxism, with critiques of fundamentalist thought and the war on terror, this volume argues for developing a philosophy of being in order to overcome the quandary of postmodern relativism. Undergirding the contributions are the premises that ontology is a vital concept for philosophy today, that an acceptable leftist ontology must avoid the kind of identity politics that has dominated recent cultural studies, and that a new ontology must be situated within global capitalism.
