Like Religion epistemology and the search for a theory to explain our knowledge and attainement of it is fast becoming sectual. Philophers, Psychologists and intellectual minds from time immemorail have taken sides and formed camps about issues like what morality is, how do we develop as humansn animal ethics and now how we come to know what we know of the world. Locke, Piaget, Vygotsky, Chomsky and others including Ernst von Glasersfeld have chosen various sides as to how we aquire knowledge and as such has become sectual. Like the protestants, catholics, baptists, jehovah witness and adventists of Christianity, Epistemology is following suit and the sad path of the matter is i think this creates a much biggger problem. Rather than trying to solve the problem at hand, this various camps are indirectly creating more problems as they fight against each other trying to decide whose theory is right or wrong.
To quote D.C. Philips, " this descent into sectarianism, and the accompanying growth in distrust of nonbelievers is probablt fate of all large scale movement". The problem of sectarianism is that individuals of the various camps don't believe in each other and rather than fightng towards their common goal; how we attain knowledge of the world or if that knowledge if justified ( in this case), endless hours, man-power and brain power are consumed as we disagree and reject each others perspective.
I think it is time we put aside our differences and agreed to disagree just so we take ten steps forward towards the objective rather than taken numerous steps in other directions except forward!!!
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I completely agree. I think accepting that there are different views, whether religious or epistemological, will give us more knowledge of the diversity in the world.
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