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Elvio Baccarini

Università degli Studi di Trieste
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    Reflective equilibrium and methodology of science
    International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 6 (3): 175-180. 1992.
    In The Rational and the Social James Brown argues against the use of the method of reflective equilibrium in attempting to justify methodological norms. For, according to Brown, this would involve a circularity for that method presupposes an account of good scientific practice. In this paper it is argued that the method can be sustained without such a presupposition using either conherentism, reliabilism or defeasible foundationalism. That being so there is no circularity in applying it within n…Read more
    Scientific Practice
  •  215
    Moral Epistemological Coherentism, Contextualism, and Consensualism
    Croatian Journal of Philosophy 9 (1): 69-89. 2009.
    The discussion regards moral epistemology as the research of a proper methodology in moral thinking. Coherentism is proposed as the appropriate methodology in the individual context of moral thinking (because of the fact that all the alternatives to coherentism, at least understood as a regulatory ideal, are opposed to rationality), while a qualified form of consensualism is proposed as the appropriate methodology in the context of communitarian or public justification of beliefs.
    Moral CoherentismCoherentism
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    Il dilemma morale e i limiti della teoria etica (review)
    Croatian Journal of Philosophy 3 (2): 208-211. 2003.
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    Will Kymlicka, Multikulturalno građanstvo
    Prolegomena 3 (2): 217-219. 2004.
    Social and Political Philosophy
  • (De) scrivere il male
    In Aldo Meccariello (ed.), La plurivocità del male, Aracne. pp. 11--24. 2009.