Ontologický obrat v kulturní antropologii a jeho relativistická příchuť: Co všechno se Grinchovi nepovedlo

• Authors: Martin Paleček , Mark Risjord

Title variants

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The  ontological turn in cultural anthropology and its relativistic flavour: How Grinch fell short

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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Recent writing associated with the so-called “ontological turn” provokes many theoretical questions. Anthropologists associated with the ontological turn deny the representationalist framework, where cultures are treated as clusters of beliefs that operate like different perspectives on a single world. These authors speak about many “worlds” instead of many cultures, and therefore it seems to imply a kind of relativism. We argue that, unlike earlier forms of relativism, the ontological turn in anthropology is not only immune to the arguments of Donald Davidson’s “The Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme”, but it affirms and develops the antirepresentationalist position of Davidson’s subsequent essays.

Keywords

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ontological turn; representation; relativism; Donald Davidson; philosophy of social sciences

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 63
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 667-688
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

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Martin Paleček

• Filosofický časopis, redakce, Filosofický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

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Mark Risjord

• Filosofický časopis, redakce, Filosofický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic