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Article: Contextualism
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- Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
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Contextualism
Contextualism comes in stronger and weaker versions. What these versions all have in common is the idea that the context, the situation, or the particularities are taken to be of outmost importance. Contextualism is a reaction against the strong emphasis on universality and common human reason characteristic of the Enlightenment tradition and modernity. The catchwords are "
Whose
truth, rationality, science, religion, ethics, or gender?" For instance, there are titles of book that read
Whose Justice? Which Rationality
? (by Alasdair MacIntyre) and
Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?
(by Sandra Harding). The idea is that it makes a crucial difference for the issues discussed ...
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