PHI 2394 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Perspectivism, Philosophical Theory, Middle Ages
4 May 2016
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Gap between how scientists do their job, and how this is communicated to outside public, leads to misunderstandings. Relativism: philosophical theory that there is no objective standard for what is true. This has caused problems in philosophy because if you say this, everything is true and thus nothing is true. Although that type of theory about what is true dates back to 60"s. Similar to relativism is perspectivism, perspective way of truth. Perspectivism: there may be more than one objective standard for what is true. But there are people with spiritual/religious truth not popular in science. There are different ways of looking at world. Art can have different truths, some can see what others don"t, beauty of one over other artistic truth. Maybe there are other truths besides scientific one, this is perspectivism. Group of saintly people, but we"re not saints and lots of things go on that motivate scientists.
