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' 'Relativism: A Brief HistoryIn Michael Krausz (ed.), Relativism: A Contemporary Anthology, Columbia University Press. 2010.
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Constructed Worlds, Contested TruthsIn Richard Schantz & Markus Seidel (eds.), The Problem of Relativism in the Sociology of (Scientific) Knowledge, Ontos. 2011.
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28Overcoming the Big Divide? The IJPS and the Analytic Continental SchismInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 32 (1): 16-29. 2024.Philosophy in the 20th century witnessed a schism between so called ‘analytic’ and ‘continental’ schools of philosophy. One of the aims of the IJPS from its inception was to provide a space for articles attempting to overcome, or at least foreshorten, that divide. This paper critically examines the various understandings of the divide and takes a quick glance at some of the attempts to bridge it.
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11Introduction: The Ethics and Politics of DisagreementInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 31 (3): 267-278. 2023.ABSTRACT The introduction to the special issue on the Ethics and Politics of Disagreement provides a history of the Robert Papazian and PERITIA IJPS Essay prizes, announces the winners of the 2023 prizes, provides a brief overview of the articles in this special issue and highlights some of their connections, and concludes with an announcement of a new IJPS essay prize.
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208Introduction: Testimonial Injustice and Trust (edited book)Routledge. forthcoming.This introduction to the edited volume on "Testimonial Injustice and Trust" provides (a) a brief overview of the philosophical debate on the notion of ‘testimonial injustice’ and (b) a summary of the 18 chapters constituting this volume. The contributions are divided into four thematic sections. These are (I) Rethinking Testimonial Injustice, (II) Testimonial Injustice and the Question of Trust, (III) The Public Spheres of Testimonial Injustice, and (IV) Testimonial Injustice and Public Health. …Read more
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42Indeterminacy and Underdetermination (edited book). 2022.From Aristotle’s puzzle about the indeterminacy of future contingents to Duhem and Quine’s observations about the underdetermination of theory by evidence, the concepts of indeterminacy and underdetermination have been a recurrent theme in philosophy. As well as a continued interest in classic problems, recent years have seen new applications of these notions in various research contexts. This Topical Collection showcases recent work on indeterminacy and underdetermination from diverse branches …Read more
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Ch. 19. Quine, Kripke, and PutnamIn Michael Beaney (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2013.
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6Questioning Experts and ExpertiseRoutledge. 2022.This book brings together philosophers, sociologist and policy experts to discuss the nature, scope and limitations of expert advice in policy decisions. The chapters collected here address some of the most fundamental questions in the debate on the role of experts.
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140Ethics and the Emotions: An Introduction to the Special IssueInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 30 (3): 193-201. 2022.This introduction provides brief outlines of the articles collected in this special issue of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies on the topic of Ethics and Emotions. It also announces the winners of the 2021 Robert Papazian and PERITIA prizes.
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12Replies to CommentatorsAnalysis 82 (3): 514-525. 2022.As is predictable, several comments raise issues about our characterization of relativism. We will focus on these first before discussing Paul Boghossian’s comm.
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6PrécisAnalysis 82 (3): 477-479. 2022.Relativism: New Problems of Philosophy1 presents, in some detail, the key arguments and justifications for the most prominent relativistic positions in contempo.
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126Hilary PutnamIn Scott F. Aikin & Robert B. Talisse (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism, Routledge. pp. 75-80. 2022.An overview of Hilary Putnam's engagement with pragmatism
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10XIV*—Why Conceptual Schemes?Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 98 (1): 287-306. 1998.Maria Baghramian; XIV*—Why Conceptual Schemes?, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 98, Issue 1, 1 June 1998, Pages 287–306, https://doi.org/10.1111.
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14RelativismStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1-60. 2015.Relativism, roughly put, is the view that truth and falsity, right and wrong, standards of reasoning, and procedures of justification are products of differing conventions and frameworks of assessment and that their authority is confined to the context giving rise to them. More precisely, ‘relativism’ covers views which maintain that—at a level of high abstraction—at least some class of things have properties they have not simpliciter, but only relative to a given framework of assessment, and co…Read more
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273Skepticism and the Value of DistrustInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.Faced with current urgent calls for more trust in experts, especially in high impact and politically sensitive domains, such as climate science and COVID-19, the complex and problematic nature of public trust in experts and the need for a more critical approach to the topic are easy to overlook. Scepticism – at least in its Humean mitigated form that encourages independent, questioning attitudes – can prove valuable to democratic governance, but stands in opposition to the cognitive dependency e…Read more
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132Themes from Testimonial Injustice and Trust: Introduction to the Special IssueInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 29 (4): 433-447. 2021.This is the introduction to the special issue "Themes from Testimonial Injustice and Trust" for the International Journal of Philosophical Studies.
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159Disagreement in science: introduction to the special issueSynthese 198 (S25): 6011-6021. 2020.Introduction to the Synthese Special Issue on Disagreement in Science.
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12Vulnerability and Trust: An IntroductionInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 28 (5): 575-582. 2020.
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10Relativism (New Problems of Philosophy)Routledge. 2004.Relativism, an ancient philosophical doctrine, is once again a topic of heated debate. In this book, Maria Baghramian and Annalisa Coliva present the recent arguments for and against various forms of relativism. The first two chapters introduce the conceptual and historical contours of relativism. These are followed by critical investigations of relativism about truth, conceptual relativism, epistemic relativism, and moral relativism. The concluding chapter asks whether it is possible to make se…Read more
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160Experts, Public Policy and the Question of TrustIn Michael Hannon & Jeroen de Ridder (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology, Routledge. 2021.This chapter discusses the topics of trust and expertise from the perspective of political epistemology. In particular, it addresses four main questions: (§1) How should we characterise experts and their expertise? (§2) How can non-experts recognize a reliable expert? (§3) What does it take for non-experts to trust experts? (§4) What problems impede trust in experts?
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5Davidson and Indeterminacy of MeaningThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 32 1-7. 1998.According to Quine's thesis of the indeterminacy of translation there are no facts of matter which could determine the choice between two or more incompatible translation schemes which are in accordance with all behavioral evidence. Donald Davidson agrees with Quine that an important degree of indeterminacy will remain after all the behavioral evidence is in, but he believes that this indeterminacy of meaning should not be seen as either mysterious or threatening. In this paper I argue that IM i…Read more
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23I—The Virtues of RelativismAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 93 (1): 247-269. 2019.What is it about relativism that justifies, or at least explains, its continued appeal in the face of relentless attacks through the history of philosophy? This paper explores a new answer to this old question, casting the response in metaphilosophical terms. § i introduces the problem. § ii argues that one part of the answer is that some of the well-known defences of relativism take it to be a philosophical stance—that is, a broad perspective or orientation with normative consequences—rather th…Read more
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8On EmpathyInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 27 (2): 131-135. 2019.Volume 27, Issue 2, May 2019, Page 131-135.
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157Divergent Perspectives on Expert Disagreement: Preliminary Evidence from Climate Science, Climate Policy, Astrophysics, and Public OpinionEnvironmental Communication 13 35-50. 2019.We report the results of an exploratory study that examines the judgments of climate scientists, climate policy experts, astrophysicists, and non-experts (N = 3367) about the factors that contribute to the creation and persistence of disagreement within climate science and astrophysics and about how one should respond to expert disagreement. We found that, as compared to non-experts, climate experts believe that within climate science (i) there is less disagreement about climate change, (ii) met…Read more
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11Comments on Annalisa Coliva, Extended Rationality: A Hinge EpistemologyInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 7 (4): 272-280. 2017._ Source: _Volume 7, Issue 4, pp 272 - 280 In _Extended Rationality: A Hinge Epistemology_, Annalisa Coliva aims to by-pass traditional sceptical challenges to the possibility of knowledge by arguing that all thinking and knowing ultimately rely on hinge assumptions which are immune from doubt because of their foundational role in the very framework that makes knowledge and rational thought possible. In defending her position Coliva also rejects the relativist challenge that there could be incom…Read more
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18RelativismRoutledge. 2004.Beginning with a historical overview of relativism, from Pythagoras in ancient Greece to Derrida and postmodernism, Maria Baghramian explores the resurgence of relativism throughout the history of philosophy. She then turns to the arguments for and against the many subdivisions of relativism, including Kuhn and Feyerabend's ideas of relativism in science, Rorty's relativism about truth, and the conceptual relativism of Quine and Putnam. Baghramian questions whether moral relativism leads to mora…Read more
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A Brief History of RelativismIn Michael Krausz (ed.), Relativism: A Contemporary Anthology, Columbia University Press. pp. 31-50. 2010.
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