Subjectivistic Relativism and Epistemic Pragmatism
Journal title PARADIGMI
Author/s Nicla Vassallo
Publishing Year 2011 Issue 2011/3 Language Italian
Pages 17 P. 135-151 File size 524 KB
DOI 10.3280/PARA2011-003010
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After clarifying some tenets of relativism, also in comparison to contextualism, I will concentrate on the conception of truth that springs from subjective relativism. My aim is to understand what kind of epistemic values and knowledge it can support. In order to strengthen such relativism, I will employ some arguments of a recent account of epistemic pragmatism. Unfortunately, those arguments will turn out to be not only inconsistent, but also well intertwined with relativistic arguments. Against this alliance of relativism and pragmatism, I will favour a conception according to which the world imposes itself on us, thereby guaranteeing to us beliefs that can become knowledge, if we are confident in the conception of objective truth.
Keywords: Contextualism, Definition of knowledge, Epistemic justification, Importance of truth, Pragmatism, Relativism, Subjectivism
Nicla Vassallo, Relativismo soggettivista e pragmatismo epistemico in "PARADIGMI" 3/2011, pp 135-151, DOI: 10.3280/PARA2011-003010