... UNFINISHED BUSINESS RELATIVISM OR ABSOLUTISM? David Bloor and the Snares of an Unfortunate Dichotomy Daniel Paksi In his article “Epistemic Grace: Antirelativism as Theology in Disguise,” pub- lished originally in the context of an important Common Knowledge symposium in defense...

... exclusive and jointly exhaustive; the two categories form a dichotomy, and thus the rejection of absolutism is a necessary and sufficient condition for the embrace of relativism and vice versa. Daniel Paksi, in a essay titled “Relativism or Absolutism? David Bloor and the Snares of an Unfortunate Dichotomy...

... of science studies” (Bruno Latour, Isabelle Stengers, and Donna Haraway), Gaskill finds that Rorty's persistent assumption of nature/culture and word/world dichotomies is politically dangerous and prevents his comprehending both distributed agency and the complexity of human entanglements with the nonhuman...

.... Unlike the Platonic body/soul dichotomy, with its fixed appearance/essence distinction, indigenous conceptions of the soul among North Asian peoples, such as the Chukchi of Siberia and the Darhads of Mongolia, are reversible: persons can turn themselves inside-out as their inner souls and outer bodies...

... perception, the essay stresses the complexity of such cognitive activities, including the ongoing interactions among the multiple variables presumably involved. Noting the challenge that such intrinsic complexity and inevitable interactivity present to standard dichotomies of universality and cultural...

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...). the period at the University of Birmingham — has helped to correct this dichotomy. I am grateful to all of them for their expansion of my own thinking on the topic...

... questions this dichotomy. As an anthropologist, he reviews many situations in which humans wear masks or use other techniques to cover their identities: cosplaying, puppy play, historical reenactments, live-action role-playing, and the use of pseudonyms. Cosplayers, the subject of Berliner's first case...

... Traditional dichotomies and related dualisms can, however, can, Traditionalextremely be related and dichotomies dualisms...

... is careful to insist that the Mandelshtams opposition to the corrupted Stalinist state was not a liberal protest. Both were utopias, replicating the same rigid dichotomies and unfreedoms. Two purities competed for the historical record, as a purge on paper was transformed into a purified community...

... more nonsensical opposition of analytical versus Continental philosophy), lumping together ideas and practices that share nothing more than an appeal to experience and a vague suspicion of speculation. Worse, these dichotomies convert subtle dialogues among philosophies past and present into wars...

... to “many worlds.” But, as I have argued elsewhere, discourses are themselves practices and do not entail a binary opposition between thinking and practice. The thought-practice dichotomy is both false and, worse still, misleading, since thinking operates with and through its own tools...

... equations were metaphorical. But given the ultimate dichotomy of God and creation, the first was in some sense only metaphorical. The second was in some sense, however, literally true. 19 Bynum added to her phenomenological analysis of gender and medieval religiosity by asking what accounted...

...- sophical dichotomies (fact vs. value, objective vs. subjective, mind vs. matter) and then, typically, tried to eliminate one side of the dichotomy in favor of the other. From Aristotle to Dewey, philosophers who have been dubious about the posturing and paradox-mongering of their flashier colleagues...

...- sophical dichotomies (fact vs. value, objective vs. subjective, mind vs. matter) and then, typically, tried to eliminate one side of the dichotomy in favor of the other. From Aristotle to Dewey, philosophers who have been dubious about the posturing and paradox-mongering of their flashier colleagues...

...- sophical dichotomies (fact vs. value, objective vs. subjective, mind vs. matter) and then, typically, tried to eliminate one side of the dichotomy in favor of the other. From Aristotle to Dewey, philosophers who have been dubious about the posturing and paradox-mongering of their flashier colleagues...

...- sophical dichotomies (fact vs. value, objective vs. subjective, mind vs. matter) and then, typically, tried to eliminate one side of the dichotomy in favor of the other. From Aristotle to Dewey, philosophers who have been dubious about the posturing and paradox-mongering of their flashier colleagues...

...- sophical dichotomies (fact vs. value, objective vs. subjective, mind vs. matter) and then, typically, tried to eliminate one side of the dichotomy in favor of the other. From Aristotle to Dewey, philosophers who have been dubious about the posturing and paradox-mongering of their flashier colleagues...

...- sophical dichotomies (fact vs. value, objective vs. subjective, mind vs. matter) and then, typically, tried to eliminate one side of the dichotomy in favor of the other. From Aristotle to Dewey, philosophers who have been dubious about the posturing and paradox-mongering of their flashier colleagues...

...- sophical dichotomies (fact vs. value, objective vs. subjective, mind vs. matter) and then, typically, tried to eliminate one side of the dichotomy in favor of the other. From Aristotle to Dewey, philosophers who have been dubious about the posturing and paradox-mongering of their flashier colleagues...