EPISTEMOLOGY AND MORAL
Igor Evgenievich Pris
Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 1/2, Surganov st., Minsk, 220072, Belarus
Keywords: internalism, coherentism, relativism, skepticism, foundationalism, morally loaded cases, externalism, knowledge-first epistemology, contextual realism
Abstract
Epistemic internalism, coherentism, relativism, skepticism, coherentism, and fundamentalism have unacceptable practical and political potential consequences. Therefore, they should be treated as false epistemological theories. These theories are based on false premises of modern philosophy. They all absolutize, i.e. decontextualize, something in one form or another. The externalist knowledge-first epistemology is free of these shortcomings. Contextual realism is the metaphysics of knowledge-first epistemology.
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