Stručni rad
Where Does the Beast of Anti-Relativism Come from
Marko Perožić
orcid.org/0000-0003-3690-2009
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
In the special summer edition of Common Knowledge (Perl, 2007) there was an article by David Bloor in which he analyzes today’s position of anti-relativists and equates them with absolutists. Bloor has in mind the type of absolutist like Joseph Ratzinger, whose final homily as a cardinal was the main motive for publishing the aforementioned edition of Common Knowledge. The edition compiled articles which were created for the purpose of the symposium
“Dictatorship of Relativism”? – Symposium in Response to Cardinal Ratzinger’s Last Homily. The main focus of this article is on questioning the significance of Bloor’s last contribution to the epistemological conflict which peaked in 1996, when Sokal published his article “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.“ Bloor’s relativization of the Science Wars shows how his argumentation does not indicate to new
strides and new findings which could invigorate the debate. Furthermore, we might say that by attacking the absolute in the anti-relativist epistemology, Bloor himself becomes absolute
in his argumentation and becomes contradictory as a result of constructing a discursive field and insisting on abstract models of science. Bloor is approaching philosophical dualism, maybe
even more than in his earlier work, and thereby he enters an area otherwise reserved for antirelativists. In the conclusion I take the position that despite multiple interpretations of Bloor’s text, there cannot be found a sufficiently original and provocative attitude which could bring change to the current situation in the Science Wars.
Ključne riječi
anti-relativism; absolutism; Bloor; Ratzinger; Relativism; strict regime; Science War
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64470
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Datum izdavanja:
15.6.2010.
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