EPISTEMOLOGY IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES elements for a deflationary view
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The purpose of this short essay is to present some challenges for the science of religion in Brazil, at the epistemological level, as I understand them from my own experience. It takes into account both recent discussions in the area of epistemology and in the philosophy of the natural sciences, seeking to deflate the debate on epistemology. We present some definitions and then aspects of Michael Pye's thinking, who advocates a plurality of methods and objects, while avoiding the threat of Religious Studies becoming limited to an inarticulate constellation of more basic disciplines. We also point out that the epistemology of our discipline has more in common with that of other related sciences than we usually admit. We highlight here an aspect in the theory of science, the "virtue epistemology," which involves epistemic, cognitive and moral values. We present two currents of this epistemology: reliabilist (focus on knowledge) and responsibilist (focus on the subject). Finally, we caution against the confusion between epistemic, moral, and political values, when partisanship overrides the concern to produce empirically validated knowledge.
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