Is western science just one science among many?


Essay, 2017

6 Seiten, Note: Distinction


Inhaltsangabe oder Einleitung

Western science is a systematic way of building and organizing knowledge. Its underlying principles are causality, logic, rationality, universality and physicalism. This kind of science is, in line with its claim of universal validity, widely seen as the only way of doing science. Is this truly the case? Or is western science just one science among many?

An application of global epistemic relativism and the equal-validity thesis to these questions leads in a first step to the notion that western science is just one science among many. In a second step, an absolutist objection challenges this view. Three relativist responses to this challenge result in the finding that, theoretically, western science is just one among many. In a last step, it is argued that this finding seems counter-intuitive. This essay does not cover how non-western science could look like in detail.

Details

Titel
Is western science just one science among many?
Hochschule
London School of Economics  (Department of Government)
Veranstaltung
Foundations of Political Theory
Note
Distinction
Autor
Jahr
2017
Seiten
6
Katalognummer
V385485
ISBN (eBook)
9783668606548
ISBN (Buch)
9783668606555
Dateigröße
485 KB
Sprache
Englisch
Schlagworte
Political Theory, Relativism
Arbeit zitieren
David Schneider (Autor:in), 2017, Is western science just one science among many?, München, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/385485

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