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The problem of relativism in the sociology of (scientific) knowledge / edited by Richard Schantz and Markus Seidel.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Philosophische Analyse ; Bd. 43.Publisher: Frankfurt, Germany ; Lancaster, LA1 : Ontos Verlag, 2011Copyright date: �2011Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110325904
  • 311032590X
  • 3868381260
  • 9783868381269
  • 3110325160
  • 9783110325164
Uniform titles:
  • Free access.
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print: Problem of relativism in the sociology of (scientific) knowledgeDDC classification:
  • 149 23
LOC classification:
  • BD222
Online resources:
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'
Summary: This volume comprises original articles by leading authors - from philosophy as well as sociology - in the debate around relativism in the sociology of (scientific) knowledge. Its aim has been to bring together several threads from the relevant disciplines and to cover the discussion from historical and systematic points of view. Among the contributors are Maria Baghramian, Barry Barnes, Martin Endre�, Hubert Knoblauch, Richard Schantz and Harvey Siegel.
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Hardcover published December 15, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references.

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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'

This volume comprises original articles by leading authors - from philosophy as well as sociology - in the debate around relativism in the sociology of (scientific) knowledge. Its aim has been to bring together several threads from the relevant disciplines and to cover the discussion from historical and systematic points of view. Among the contributors are Maria Baghramian, Barry Barnes, Martin Endre�, Hubert Knoblauch, Richard Schantz and Harvey Siegel.

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