Theorizing in Perspective: Epistemic Pluralism

2021 ◽  
pp. 72-82
Author(s):  
David John Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Epistemic Pluralism

True Knowledge

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-461
Author(s):  
Peter Baumann ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Long Time ◽  
The One ◽  
True Knowledge ◽  
Epistemic Pluralism

That knowledge is factive, that is, that knowledge that p requires that p, has for a long time typically been treated as a truism. Recently, however, some authors have raised doubts about and arguments against this claim. In a recent paper in this journal, Michael Shaffer presents new arguments against the denial of the factivity of knowledge. This article discusses one of Shaffer’s objections: the one from “inconsistency and explosion.” I discuss two potential replies to Shaffer’s problem: dialetheism plus paraconsistency and epistemic pluralism. This is not to be understood so much as a criticism of Shaffer’s view but rather as a request to develop his very promising objection from inconsistency and explosion further.

Pure Epistemic Pluralism

2017 ◽  
pp. 47-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Epistemic Pluralism

Epistemic pluralism and the justification of conceptual strategies in science

2021 ◽  
pp. 095935432110638
Author(s):  
Daniel Wegerhoff ◽  
Tony Ward ◽  
Louise Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Scientific Explanations ◽  
Research Programs ◽  
Pluralist Approach ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Epistemic Pluralism

In recent years, epistemic pluralism has received considerable endorsement as an approach to constructing scientific explanations and pursuing empirical research programs. In this article, we briefly discuss the advantages of an epistemically pluralist approach before outlining our own model of epistemic pluralism. The model we present emphasizes the specific considerations that occur when determining and justifying the selection of conceptual strategies and how conceptual strategies work together to provide task-relevant insights. By clarifying these constraint relationships, we highlight the kinds of systematic considerations that must be taken into account when selecting conceptual strategies for research tasks. We present a case study based on gang research to demonstrate how such considerations occur and the epistemic and pragmatic benefits of doing so.

scholarly journals Epistemic Pluralism

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-498
Author(s):  
Nick Zangwill
Keyword(s):  
Epistemic Pluralism

Race, Empire, and Epistemic Exclusion: Or the Structures of Sociological Thought

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Go
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Social Geography ◽  
American Imperialism ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Sociological Thought ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Modes Of Thought ◽  
Epistemic Pluralism

This essay analyzes racialized exclusions in sociology through a focus on sociology’s deep epistemic structures. These structures dictate what counts as social scientific knowledge and who can produce it. A historical analysis of their emergence and persistence reveals their connections to empire. Due to sociology’s initial emergence within the culture of American imperialism, early sociological thought embedded the culture of empire’s exclusionary logics. Sociology’s epistemic structures were inextricably racialized, contributing to exclusionary modes of thought and practice along the lines of race, ethnicity, and social geography that persist into the present. Overcoming this racialized inequality requires problematizing and unsettling these epistemic structures by (1) provincializing the canon to create a transformative epistemic pluralism and (2) reconsidering common conceptions of what counts as “theory” in the first place.

scholarly journals Existential Postdisciplinarity: Personal Journeys Into Tourism, Art, and Freedom

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Pernecky ◽  
Ana María Munar ◽  
Brian Wheeller
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Creative Problem Solving ◽  
Creative Problem ◽  
Epistemic Pluralism

Postdisciplinarity makes claims on ontological, epistemic, and methodological levels, but it is inevitably a personal philosophical stance. This article represents an existentialist approach to the discourse on postdisciplinarity, offering reflective narratives of three academics. Tomas Pernecky discusses creativity, criticality, freedom, and methodological and epistemic pluralism; Ana María Munar reveals her journey of epistemological awakening; and Brian Wheeller underscores the importance of researchers' subjective and emotive voice. Jointly, the authors depict postdisciplinarity as an invitation to conceptual and interpretive eclecticism, critical analysis, and creative problem solving.

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