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Many researchers in this tradition simply ignore traditional epistemological concerns with truth, justification and rationality.
Pursuing an evolutionary approach to epistemology raises fundamental questions about the concepts of knowledge, truth, realism, justification and rationality.
First, researchers in the social studies of science tend to embrace a form of relativism about the traditional concepts of epistemic justification and rationality, by rejecting the idea of universal and objective epistemic norms.
Such epistemology can survive, and even thrive, with an expanded conception of how the truth-goal (and the justification and rationality goals) can be served, namely, with the help of well-designed social and interpersonal practices and institutions.
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This philosophical tradition focused on themes such as meaning change and incommensurability of terms across world views (e.g., paradigms), scientific change (e.g., revolutionary: Kuhn 1970; evolutionary: Toulmin 1972), the interweaving of context of discovery and context of justification, and scientific rationality (Preston 2012; Bird 2013; Swoyer 2014).
The old epistemology was interested in questions about rationality, justification, and knowledge.
Pride and rationality prevented garnishing Michael's pizzeria pay.
Control and rationality are part of any morality".
"This goes against democracy and rationality".
"He brought peace and rationality to controversial issues.
Here, trust and rationality seem to come apart.
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