DIMENSIONES ARGUMENTATIVAS DEL RELATIVISMO EPISTÉMICO: ENTRE EL PROGRAMA Y LA DUDA ESCÉPTICA.

The aim of this paper is to open the debate on the implications that epistemic relativism has as a form to understand the scientific activity It looks to analyze the argumentative strategies with which this perspective faces the universalist and rationalist positions in epistemology; and to see how from these it bases a program or agenda of work for which they try to give account of how science is constructed. In this essay we argue that a characteristic of the relativist arguments--that has made it difficult for its critics or the attempts to avoid it--is that it starts from a set of skeptical arguments with which it fights the universalist and rationalist pretensions of other traditions in the philosophy of science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]