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For a Modest Historicism

The Monist 60 (4):540-555 (1977)

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  1. Relativism, truth, and incoherence.Harvey Siegel - 1986 - Synthese 68 (2):225-259.
    There are many contemporary sources and defenders of epistemological relativism which have not been considered thus far. I have, for example, barely touched on the voluminous literature regarding frameworks, conceptual schemes, and Wittgensteinian forms of life. Davidson's challenge to the scheme/content distinction and thereby to conceptual relativism, Rorty's acceptance of the Davidsonian argument and his use of it to defend a relativistic position, Winchian and other sociological and anthropological arguments for relativism, recent work in the sociology of science, and Goodman's (...)
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  • Prospective Realism.Harold I. Brown - 1990 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 21 (2):211.
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  • Response to Siegel.Harold I. Brown - 1983 - Synthese 56 (1):91 - 105.
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  • The failure to be rational.Morton L. Schagrin - 1982 - Philosophy of Science 49 (1):120-124.
    In a book and a series of articles Harold I. Brown has presented “the new theory of science”, which he characterizes as a “modest historicism”. I propose to examine Brown's contribution to the current debate on scientific method, and to show the inadequacy of his proposals. In particular, I want to concentrate on a fundamental concern of Brown's, namely, rationality.
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