Four Kinds of Perspectival Truth. (10th June 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Massimi, Michela
• Is Part Of: Philosophy and phenomenological research. Volume 96:Number 2(2018)
• Page Start: 342
• Page End: 359
• Publication Date: 2016-06-10
• Subjects: Philosophy -- Periodicals; Phenomenology -- Periodicals; 100
• DOI: 10.1111/phpr.12300
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0031-8205

Abstract

Abstract : In this paper, I assess recent claims in philosophy of science about scientific perspectivism being compatible with realism. I clarify the rationale for scientific perspectivism and the problems and challenges that perspectivism faces in delivering a form of realism. In particular, I concentrate my attention on truth, and on ways in which truth can be understood in perspectival terms. I offer a cost‐benefit analysis of each of them and defend a version that in my view is most promising in living up to realist expectations.