Four Kinds of Perspectival Truth

Philos Phenomenol Res. 2018 Mar;96(2):342-359. doi: 10.1111/phpr.12300. Epub 2016 Jun 10.

Abstract

In this paper, I assess recent claims in philosophy of science about scientific perspectivism being compatible with realism. I clarify the rationale for scientific perspectivism and the problems and challenges that perspectivism faces in delivering a form of realism. In particular, I concentrate my attention on truth, and on ways in which truth can be understood in perspectival terms. I offer a cost-benefit analysis of each of them and defend a version that in my view is most promising in living up to realist expectations.