THE CHARACTERIZATION OF EPISTEMOLOGY IN PHILIP KITCHER* A CRITICAL REFLECTION FROM NEW EMPIRICISM

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THE CHARACTERIZATION OF EPISTEMOLOGY IN PHILIP KITCHER* A CRITICAL REFLECTION FROM NEW EMPIRICISM

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Pages:: 113–138

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401207355_004

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While the earlier work of Philip Kitcher, in particular The Advancement of Science (1993), continues to inform his more recent studies, such as Science, Truth, and Democracy (2001), there are significant “changes of opinion” from those articulated in the 1990s. One may even speak of two different stages in the configuration of epistemological proposals. An analysis, from an empiricist standpoint, of the shifts between one and the other indicates further evolution towards realist positions but much more modest ones than those previously endorsed. Kitcher qualifies former individualism with an ensuing defence of pluralism, vital to his effort to develop a social epistemology. The present centrality of the achievement of a well-ordered science, one that promotes the common good within the context of democracies, encapsulates recent variation in the work of Kitcher and may be considered one of the author’s most defendable proposals, even including its classically empiricist resonance.

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Scientific Realism and Democratic Society

The Philosophy of Philip Kitcher

Series: Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Volume: 101 and Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities Online, Volume: 101

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Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2011

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  - Philosophy of Science
  - Social & Political Philosophy
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