Knowledge from a Human Point of View.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crețu, Ana-Maria.
Other Authors: Massimi, Michela.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2019.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Synthese Library
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Table of Contents:
  • Knowledge 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.