Kant's Moral and Political Cosmopolitanism

Kleingeld, Pauline

doi:10.1111/phc3.12298

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“…Following Kant, Arendt likewise argues that "crimes against humanity" are not violations of moral norms alone, but violations of the rights of humanity in our person' (Benhabib 2006, p. 22, emphasis in original). See on this point also Kleingeld (2011Kleingeld ( , 2016 and Waldron (2006).…”

Section: Non-classist Scientific Cosmopolitanismmentioning

confidence: 93%

Perspectival Realism

Massimi¹

2022

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What does it mean to be a realist about science if one takes seriously the view that scientific knowledge is always perspectival, namely historically and culturally situated? In Perspectival Realism, Michela Massimi articulates an original answer to this question. The result is a philosophical view that goes under the name of ‘perspectival realism’ and it offers a new lens for thinking about scientific knowledge, realism, and pluralism in science. Perspectival Realism begins with an exploration of how epistemic communities often resort to several models and a plurality of practices in some areas of inquiry, drawing on examples from nuclear physics, climate science, and developmental psychology. Taking this plurality in science as a starting point, Massimi explains the perspectival nature of scientific representation, the role of scientific models as inferential blueprints, and the variety of realism that naturally accompanies such a view. Perspectival realism is realism about phenomena (rather than about theories or unobservable entities). The result of this novel view is a portrait of scientific knowledge as a collaborative inquiry, where the reliability of science is made possible by a plurality of historically and culturally situated scientific perspectives. Along the way, Massimi offers insights into the nature of scientific modelling, scientific knowledge qua modal knowledge, data-to-phenomena inferences, and natural kinds as sortal concepts. Perspectival realism offers a realist view that takes the multicultural roots of science seriously and couples it with cosmopolitan duties about how one ought to think about scientific knowledge and the distribution of benefits gained from scientific advancements.

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Section: Non-classist Scientific Cosmopolitanismmentioning

confidence: 93%