Una Concepción ética del conocimiento y sus repercusiones prácticas
It is necessary to consider science as a historical and cultural product in order to understand its epistemological status. Faced with relativist positions that consider that there is no possibility of transcending the perspective of a gaze necessarily anchored in one or another culture and its conc...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/CdF/article/view/11175 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=cufilo&d=11175_oai |
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| Sumario: | It is necessary to consider science as a historical and cultural product in order to understand its epistemological status. Faced with relativist positions that consider that there is no possibility of transcending the perspective of a gaze necessarily anchored in one or another culture and its conceptual baggage, we maintain that while it is undeniably true that science is also a cultural product, it is, however, much more and it stands as a knowledge of a transcultural type, that is, it transcends the local elements of any culture and has epistemic privileges that position it above any other type of knowledge. From the hand of the English philosopher Ernest Gellner, we will maintain that cognitive relativism is false and that this falsehood has moral implication |
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