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"A Companion to Relativism presents original contributions from leading scholars that address the latest thinking on the role of relativism in the philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of science, logic, and metaphysics. Features original contributions from many of the leadin...
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Wiley-Blackwell,
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| Publisher Address: | Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. : |
| Publication Dates: | 2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell companions to philosophy ;
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"A Companion to Relativism presents original contributions from leading scholars that address the latest thinking on the role of relativism in the philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of science, logic, and metaphysics. Features original contributions from many of the leading figures working on various aspects of relativism Presents a substantial, broad range of current thinking about relativism Addresses relativism from many of the major subfields of philosophy, including philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of science, logic, and metaphysics"-- "Relativism is one of philosophy's oldest -- and most polarizing -- concepts. It has captivated thinkers since the days of Protagoras (who supported the notion) and Plato (who did not). Relativism is assailed by popes as leading people away from absolute religious truths, and blamed by social commentators for many of society's ills. With a few notable exceptions, 20th-century philosophers grew to dismiss relativism as an obviously mistaken or even self-refuting concept. But in the past decade, even its staunchest philosophical critics have come to realize that relativism is a legitimate option for explaining a variety of phenomena, including faultless disagreement, the utility of alternative logics, varieties of cross-cultural moralities, and differing ontological conceptual schemes. Reflecting this overdue reappraisal, A Companion to Relativism presents the latest thinking on the role of relativism in the philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of science, logic, and metaphysics. Original contributions to this volume feature cutting edge thinking from a variety of eminent scholars who approach relativism from various perspectives and philosophical subfields"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 662 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781119698166 1119698162 9781405190213 1405190213 |
| Index Number: | BD221 |
| CLC: | B024.2 |
| Call Number: | B024.2/C737 |
| Contents: |
Characterizing Relativism: Global relativism and self-refutation / Relativism requires alternative, not disagreement or relative truth / Three kinds of relativism / Varieties of relativism and the reach of reason / Truth and Language: Truth relativism and truth pluralism / Variation in intuitions about references and ontological disagreements / Centered worlds and the content of perception / Conceptual relativism / The limits of relativism in the late Wittgenstein / Epistemic Relativism: Epistemological relativism: arguments pro and con / Relativism about epistemic modals / Relativism and confirmation theory / Epistemic relativism, epistemic incommensurability, and Wittgensteinian epistemology / Relativism and contextualism / Moral Relativism: Relativism in contemporary liberal political philosophy / Secularism, liberalism, and relativism / Moral relativism and moral psychology / Bare bones moral realism and the objections from relativism / Virtue ethics and moral relativism / Relativist explanations of interpersonal and group disagreement / Relativism in the Philosophy of Science: Relativism and the sociology of scientific knowledge / Incommensurability and theory change / Thomas Kuhn's relativistic legacy / Anti-realism and relativism / Logical, Mathematical, and Ontological Relativism: Horror contradictions / Varieties or pluralism and relativism for logic / Relativism in set theory and mathematics / Putnam's model-theoretic argument / Quine's ontological relativity / Carving up a reality in which there are no joints / |