Practicing Relativism in the Anthropocene
On Science, Belief, and the Humanities
In Practicing Relativism in the Anthropocene, Barbara Herrnstein Smith addresses a set of contemporary issues involving knowledge and science from a constructivist-pragmatist perspective often labeled relativism. Practicing that relativism, she argues, does not mean refusing judgment or asserting absurdities but being conscious of the existence and significance of contingency, complexity, and multiplicity. Rejecting classic and neorealist views of knowledge and human cognition, Smith describes important alternative accounts in cognitive theory, science studies, and contemporary philosophy of mind. The relativism commonly associated with thes…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78542-070-2
- EAN: 9781785420702
- Produktnummer: 29200947
- Verlag: Open Humanities Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 152 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.8 cm 231 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 231
Über den Autor
Barbara Herrnstein Smith is Braxton Craven Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and English at Duke University and former director of its Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory. Her books include Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory (1988); Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy (1997); Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human (2004); and Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion (2009). Smith is member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an honorary fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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