The problem of relativism in the sociology of (scientific) knowledge /

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Imprint:Frankfurt ; New Brunswick [N.J.] : Ontos Verlag ; Piscataway, NJ : [Distributed in] North and South America by Transaction Books, 2011.
Description:235 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Series:Philosophische Analyse ; Bd. 43 = Philosophical analysis ; v. 43
Philosophische Analyse ; Bd. 43.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8914600
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Other authors / contributors:Schantz, Richard.
Seidel, Markus.
ISBN:9783868381283 (hd.bd.)
3868381287 (hd.bd.)
Notes:International conference proceedings.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Notes on Contributers
  • Introduction
  • Relativism as a Completion of the Scientific Project
  • Relativism, Incoherence, and the Strong Programme
  • Realism and Relativism
  • Theory-Ladenness and Relativism
  • Constructed Worlds, Contested Truths
  • Relativism, Meaning and the New Sociology of Knowledge
  • Methodological Relationism
  • Karl Mannheim, Relativism and Knowledge in the Natural Sciences - A Deviant Interpretation
  • Knowledge, Practice, and the Problem of Relativism - Reconsidering Michael Polanyi's 'Personal Knowledge'