As in any European wrangle, domestic politics looms large and different nations have incompatible perspectives.
In my introduction to "Understanding Anti-Americanism" I wrote: "A proper understanding of anti-Americanism can only be achieved by balancing two apparently incompatible perspectives...
The question, remember, is whether an exclusivist who acknowledges that epistemic peers hold incompatible perspectives can continue to justifiably maintain with full confidence that her perspective is superior.
Individuals who apparently have access to the same information and are equally interested in the truth affirm incompatible perspectives on, for instance, significant social, political, and economic issues.
The theory of social construction of technology (SCOT) and the theory of technological paradigms (TTP) are normally regarded as competing or even incompatible perspectives on technological change.
From these seemingly incompatible perspectives, a middle ground is negotiated by embedding an autoethnographical perspective, allowing for reflection upon the implications of the return of the dead to the heart of the living city upon practices of death and grief, of memory and experience, of mourning and of everyday life.
The doctors made a clear distinction between top-down and bottom-up as partly incompatible perspectives on quality work.
These "clumsy solutions" would involve bringing together "multiple, diverse, perhaps incompatible, perspectives" and would result "in a settlement that is inelegant from any single perspective, but robust because it relies on more than one epistemological and ethical foundation" (p. 123).
How should, for instance, the devout Buddhist or Hindu or Christian who comes to realize that others who seem as knowledgeable and devout hold incompatible religious perspectives respond?
