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Subject(s)

• Relativity [Browse]

Related name

• Seidel, Markus [Browse]

Series

• Philosophische Analyse ; Bd. 43 [More in this series]
• Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis [More in this series]
• Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis ; 43 [More in this series]

Summary note

This volume comprises original articles by leading authors - from philosophy as well as sociology - in the debate around relativism in the sociology of (scientific) knowledge. Its aim has been to bring together several threads from the relevant disciplines and to cover the discussion from historical and systematic points of view. Among the contributors are Maria Baghramian, Barry Barnes, Martin Endreß, Hubert Knoblauch, Richard Schantz and Harvey Siegel.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Language note

English

Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Notes on Contributers
• Introduction / Schantz, Richard / Seidel, Markus
• Relativism as a Completion of the Scientific Project / Barnes, Barry
• Relativism, Incoherence, and the Strong Programme / Siegel, Harvey
• Realism and Relativism / Schantz, Richard
• Theory-Ladenness and Relativism / Eckes, Magdalena / Erll, Simon / Wenclawiak, André
• Constructed Worlds, Contested Truths / Baghramian, Maria
• Relativism, Meaning and the New Sociology of Knowledge / Knoblauch, Hubert
• Methodological Relationism / Endress, Martin
• Karl Mannheim, Relativism and Knowledge in the Natural Sciences - A Deviant Interpretation / Seidel, Markus
• Knowledge, Practice, and the Problem of Relativism - Reconsidering Michael Polanyi's 'Personal Knowledge' / Jung, Eva-Maria

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ISBN

• 9783110325904
• 311032590X

OCLC

• 851970732
• 1013955957
• 853262703

Doi

• 10.1515/9783110325904

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