scholarly journals Presentación Editorial

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (36) ◽  
pp. 7-11
Author(s):  
Carlos Emilio García Duque
Keyword(s):  
Epistemic Relativism

Para esta entrega hemos incluido ocho artículos de investigación, una carta al editor y una reseña. A continuación daremos más detalles sobre estos trabajos. El fascículo se abre con el artículo “Epistemic relativism and circularity” del investigador colombiano Oscar A. Piedrahita, radicado actualmente en los Estados Unidos y afiliado a la Universidad de California, Irvine.

Medical Cosmopolitanism

2019 ◽  
pp. 181-208
Author(s):  
Alex Broadbent
Keyword(s):  
First Principles ◽  
Epistemic Relativism ◽  
Epistemic Humility ◽  
Standards Of Evidence ◽  
Realist View

This chapter seeks an attitude to medicine that does not commit the error of EBM in committing to an unjustifiably rigid notion of evidence, nor the reaction of Medical Nihilism of adopting EBM’s standards of evidence and then raising the bar even higher. Cosmopolitanism is a position developed by Appiah in the context of ethical disagreement, designed to facilitate conversation without falling into epistemic relativism. The chapter unpacks Cosmopolitanism into four stances: metaphysical, epistemic, moral, and practical. It applies these stances to medicine to yield Medical Cosmopolitanism. On this realist view, medical facts (e.g., whether an intervention works, whether someone is sick) are not dependent on the perceiver. Nonetheless Cosmopolitanism promotes epistemic humility: the attitude that one has limited confidence in one’s medical beliefs (both of efficacy and of the inefficacy of someone else’s favored intervention). And it promotes Primacy of Practice: settle cases first, principles later.

Epistemic relativism and semantic blindness

Synthese ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 192 (3) ◽  
pp. 859-876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin T. Rancourt
Keyword(s):  
Epistemic Relativism ◽  
Semantic Blindness

Replies to Commentators

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annalisa Coliva
Keyword(s):  
Perceptual Justification ◽  
Epistemic Relativism ◽  
Hinge Epistemology

The paper contains the replies to the comments made by Alan Millar, Yuval Avnur, Giorgio Volpe, and Maria Baghramian on my Extended Rationality: A Hinge Epistemology. It addresses, in particular, the nature of perceptual justification, the truth of hinges, my response to Humean skepticism and the issue of epistemic relativism.

The ‘Nature of Science’ and the Perils of Epistemic Relativism

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 1735-1757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Romero-Maltrana ◽  
Federico Benitez ◽  
Francisco Vera ◽  
Rodrigo Rivera
Keyword(s):  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Epistemic Relativism
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