Scientific Perspectivism and Its Foes

Abstract

In this paper, I address a prominent realist challenge recently raised by Anjan Chakravartty (2010) against scientific perspectivism.I offer a response to the challenge, by rethinking scientific perspectivism as a view on how we form scientific knowledge, as opposed to a view about what sort of objects we have scientific knowledge of.My response follows Ernest Sosa's perspectivism in epistemology by drawing a distinction between truth and justification for our knowledge claims.With this distinction in place, I pledge to defend scientific perspectivism as a promising alternative to both objectivist realism and relativism.

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