Knowledge from a Human Point of View.
Material type: TextSeries: Synthese LibraryPublisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2019Copyright date: {copy}2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (164 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783030270414Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Knowledge from a Human Point of ViewLOC classification: Q174-175.3Online resources: Click to ViewKnowledge from a Human Point of View -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Contents -- Contributors -- Editors -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Chapter 1: Attempting to Exit the Human Perspective: A Priori Experimentation in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Problem, in Some More Detail -- 1.3 The Transcendental Dialectic: An Alternative Perspective -- 1.4 An Alternative Perspective -- 1.5 Only Sort of an Alternative Perspective -- 1.6 Coda -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Nietzsche's Epistemic Perspectivism -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Skeptical and Pragmatic Interpretations -- 2.3 Nietzsche's First-Order Perspectivism -- 2.4 Nietzsche's Second-Order Perspectivism -- 2.5 Understanding -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Pluralism and Perspectivism in the American Pragmatist Tradition -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Pragmatists' Fallibilistic Theories of Inquiry and Truth -- 3.2.1 Charles Peirce's Doubt-Belief-Inquiry Schema -- 3.2.2 William James's Liberalization of Peirce -- 3.2.3 John Dewey's Situational Theory of Inquiry -- 3.2.4 Epistemological Lessons for and from Perspectivism -- 3.3 Pluralism and Perspectivism in Pragmatist Metaphysics -- 3.3.1 Peirce's Triadism and Evolutionary Metaphysics -- 3.3.2 James's Pluralistic Universe -- 3.3.3 John Dewey's Immediate Empiricism and Cultural Naturalism -- 3.3.4 Richard Rorty's Anti-Essentialism -- 3.3.5 Metaphysical Lessons for and from Perspectivism -- 3.4 Pragmatist Standpoint Theories and Cultural Pluralism -- 3.4.1 Addams' Pluralistic Standpoint Epistemology -- 3.4.2 Du Bois on Race Consciousness -- 3.4.3 Cultural Pluralism in Kallen, Locke, and Follett -- 3.4.4 Cultural Lessons for and from Perspectivism -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Hilary Putnam on Perspectivism and Naturalism -- 4.1 Preamble -- 4.2 For and against Metaphysical Realism.
4.3 Internal Realism -- 4.4 Beyond Internal Realism -- 4.5 Liberal Naturalism -- 4.6 Perspectivism and Liberal Naturalism -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Scientific Perspectives, Feminist Standpoints, and Non-Silly Relativism -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Comparing Perspectival Realism and Feminist Standpoint Theory -- 5.3 Relativism in Feminist Standpoint Theory -- 5.4 Relativism in Perspectival Realism -- 5.5 Non-Neutral and Non-silly Epistemic Relativism -- 5.6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Perspectives, Questions, and Epistemic Value -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 True-Belief Monism -- 6.3 Inquisitive Truth Monism -- 6.4 Characterizing Inquiry's Goals -- 6.5 Scientific Practice -- 6.5.1 Non-Propositional Representations -- 6.5.2 Idealizations -- 6.5.3 Approximations -- 6.6 Perspectivism Defended -- 6.7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Perspectivalism About Knowledge and Error -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Truth-Conduciveness and Epistemic Normativity -- 7.3 A Problem for How Truth-Conduciveness Is Understood -- 7.4 What, Then, Is More Truth and Less Error? -- 7.5 Perspectivalism Renewed -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: Virtue Perspectivism, Externalism, and Epistemic Circularity -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Virtue Perspectivism and Circularity -- 8.3 Stroud on Sosa and Circularity -- 8.4 The Dialectic Between Sosa and Stroud Revisited -- 8.5 Reed on Rationalist Perspectivism and Virtue Perspectivism -- 8.6 Reply to Reed -- 8.7 Fumerton on Virtue Perspectivism and Coherence -- 8.8 Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9: Knowledge from a Human Point of View -- Index.
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