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Relativism Refuted: A Critique of Contemporary Epistemological Relativism

Harvey Siegel

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Relativism and the Problem of Incoherence.- The Incoherence Argument and the Notion of Relative Truth.- Frameworks, Conceptual Schemes, and Framework Relativism and the Philosophy of Science.- Kuhn and Relativism: Is He or Isn't He?.- The Kuhnians.- The Kuhn-Inspired New Philosophy of Science.- The Un-Kuhnians: Relativism via the Problem-Solving Theory of Rationality.- Further Epistemological Considerations.- Goodmanian Relativism.- Relativism and Rationality: Towards an Absolutist Epistemology.

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Key concepts: Relativism, Epistemology, Rationality, Philosophy, Philosophy of science, Argument (complex analysis), Biochemistry, Chemistry