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Poznanie naukowe a prawda absolutna. Krytyka argumentu za istnieniem Boga Siemiona L. Franka

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Sajdek Z.

Racjonalia. Z punktu widzenia humanistyki

2016

vol. 6

According to a Russian philosopher Siemion Frank, there is no such thing as “truth” in science without making a pre‑assumption about the existence of some kind absolute, and in Frank’s eyes “absolute” always equals “God”. That is why you cannot be an atheist and scientist at the same time. The article is an attempt to show that it is not a proper notion of what science is or should be because: 1) science does not need any idea of truth (maybe philosophy of science does), 2) a consistent notion of truth can be formulated without any notion of absolute, 3) “absolute” not always equals “God”, or even “transcendence”.

Karl Mannheim’s Sociology of Knowledge versus the Problem of Relativism and The Objectivity of Cognition

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Czerniak S.

Dialogue and Universalism

2023

issue 3

81-96

Below I ask whether the theoretical assumptions of the sociology of knowledge imply a subjectivistic and relativistic approach to cognition theory—a matter that has already been discussed in Polish subject literature (among others by Adam Schaff). Does the “social conditioning of cognition” conception propounded by the sociology of knowledge deny the existence of objective truth and adequate knowledge? Karl Mannheim himself called the sociology of knowledge an anti-relativist position. The critics of his anti-relativist argumentation say it is full of ambiguities and contradictions. I will attempt to take a closer look at this problem, and, at the same time, at the relation between Mannheim’s sociology of knowledge project and such measures of the adequacy of knowledge as the coherence and general consensus criterion. The main question I will try to answer is whether the Mannheimian sociology of knowledge project is a form of epistemological relativism (in the specific meaning of the term I use here), and if not, in what sense and to what degree it can be considered a position convergent with the relative truth conception.

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Poznanie naukowe a prawda absolutna. Krytyka argumentu za istnieniem Boga Siemiona L. Franka

Karl Mannheim’s Sociology of Knowledge versus the Problem of Relativism and The Objectivity of Cognition