Abstract / Description of output
This chapter contains sections titled: * Abstract * From the Epistemology of Disagreement to Epistemic Relativism * The Irrelevance of Epistemic Externalism * Wittgensteinian Epistemology and Epistemic Relativism * Williams's Wittgensteinian Contextualism * Wittgensteinian Epistemology Reconsidered * Concluding Remarks * References
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Blackwell Companion to Relativism |
| Editors | Steven D Hales |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Pages | 266-285 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781444392494 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781405190213 |
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| Publication status | Published - 20 Apr 2011 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- epistemic relativism, epistemic incommensurability and Wittgensteinian epistemology, from epistemology of disagreement - to epistemic relativism, specifically epistemic form of relativism, Wittgenstein's writings on epistemology, epistemology of disagreement - disputes of the sort that concern us, Adam's adversary, ?Eve? - acquiring her belief about the age of the earth from studying relevant areas of science at school, Wittgensteinian epistemology and epistemic relativism, Wittgensteinian epistemology reconsidered, Wittgenstein's argument for hinge propositions - entailing epistemic incommensurability thesis, distinctive problem, raised by epistemology of disagreement - relevant to discussion of epistemic relativism