Kant and philosophy of science today
In: Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement 63
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In: Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement 63
In: Environmental science & policy, Band 153, S. 103681
ISSN: 1462-9011
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Band 198, Heft S25, S. 6115-6141
ISSN: 1573-0964
AbstractThis paper attends to two main tasks. First, I introduce the notion of perspectival disagreement in science. Second, I relate perspectival disagreement in science to the broader issue of realism about science: how to maintain realist ontological commitments in the face of perspectival disagreement among scientists? I argue that often enough perspectival disagreement is not at the level of the scientific knowledge claims but rather of the methodological and justificatory principles. I introduce and clarify the notion of 'agreeing-whilst-perspectivally-disagreeing' with an episode from the history of modern physics: namely, how we came to agree about the electric charge as a minimal natural unit despite different scientific perspectives and associated data-to-phenomena inferences available for it in the period 1897–1906.
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Band 198, Heft S13, S. 3279-3296
ISSN: 1573-0964
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Band 182, Heft 1, S. 101-116
ISSN: 1573-0964
In: Metascience: an international review journal for the history, philosophy and social studies of science, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 79-83
ISSN: 1467-9981
In: Metascience: an international review journal for the history, philosophy and social studies of science, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 87-91
ISSN: 1467-9981
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Band 140, Heft 3, S. 243-277
ISSN: 1573-0964
In: 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.