Knowledge from a Human Point of View

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-27040-7
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 430 g

Reihe: Synthese Library

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cre¿u, Ana-Maria

Massimi, Michela

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Ana-Maria Cre?u 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

Über Autor(innen)

Michela Massimi is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Edinburgh. She has extensively written in the area of history and philosophy of science. She was Co-Editor in Chief of The British Journal for Philosophy of Science (2011-2016), and she is currently the Vice President of the European Philosophy of Science Association. Michela is the PI on a ERC-funded project on Perspectival Realism. Science, Knowledge and Truth from a Human Vantage Point (2016-2020).