Epistemic relativism defended

In Alvin I. Goldman & Dennis Whitcomb (eds.), Social Epistemology: Essential Readings. New York: Oxford University Press (2011)
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This chapter gives a sympathetic account of how one might be drawn to a constructivist and hence relativist view of justification, according to which different communities might legitimately disagree about what justificatory force to assign to any particular item of evidence.

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