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A Companion to Relativism

Out of Print
By: Steven D Hales(Editor)
662 pages, b/w illustrations
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
A Companion to Relativism
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  • A Companion to Relativism ISBN: 9781405190213 Hardback Jan 2011 Out of Print #236222
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About this book

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
 

Contents

Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1

Part I Characterizing Relativism 9
1 Global Relativism and Self-Refutation 11
      Max Kölbel
2 Relativism Requires Alternatives, Not Disagreement or Relative Truth 31
      Carol Rovane
3 Three Kinds of Relativism 53
      Paul Boghossian
4 Varieties of Relativism and the Reach of Reasons 70
      Michael Krausz

Part II Truth and Language 85
5 Truth Relativism and Truth Pluralism 87
      Michael P. Lynch
6 The Many Relativisms: Index, Context, and Beyond 102
      Dan López de Sa
7 Variation in Intuitions about Reference and Ontological Disagreements 118
      Edouard Machery
8 Centered Worlds and the Content of Perception 137
      Berit Brogaard
9 Conceptual Relativism 159
      Kenneth A. Taylor
10 The Limits of Relativism in the Late Wittgenstein 179
      Patricia Hanna and Bernard Harrison

Part III Epistemic Relativism 199
11 Epistemological Relativism: Arguments Pro and Con 201
      Harvey Siegel
12 Relativism About Epistemic Modals 219
      Andy Egan
13 Relativism and Confi rmation Theory 242
      Igor Douven
14 Epistemic Relativism, Epistemic Incommensurability, and Wittgensteinian Epistemology 266
      Duncan Pritchard
15 Relativism and Contextualism 286
      Patrick Rysiew

Part IV Moral Relativism 307
16 Relativism in Contemporary Liberal Political Philosophy 309
      Graham M. Long
17 Secularism, Liberalism, and Relativism 326
      Akeel Bilgrami
18 Moral Relativism and Moral Psychology 346
      Christian B. Miller
19 Bare Bones Moral Realism and the Objections from Relativism 368
      Mark Balaguer
20 Virtue Ethics and Moral Relativism 391
      Christopher W. Gowans
21 Relativist Explanations of Interpersonal and Group Disagreement 411
      David B. Wong

Part V Relativism in the Philosophy of Science 431
22 Relativism and the Sociology of Scientifi c Knowledge 433
      David Bloor
23 Incommensurability and Theory Change 456
      Howard Sankey
24 Thomas Kuhn’s Relativistic Legacy 475
      Alexander Bird
25 Anti-Realism and Relativism 489
      Christopher Norris

Part VI Logical, Mathematical, and Ontological Relativism 509
26 Horror Contradictionis 511
      Johan Van Benthem
27 Varieties of Pluralism and Relativism for Logic 526
      Stewart Shapiro
28 Relativism in Set Theory and Mathematics 553
      Otávio Bueno
29 Putnam’s Model-Theoretic Argument 569
      Maximilian de Gaynesford
30 Quine’s Ontological Relativity 588
      Gary L. Hardcastle
31 Carving Up a Reality in Which There are no Joints 604
      Crawford L. Elder

Index 621

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Biography

Steven D. Hales is Professor of Philosophy at Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Relativism and the Foundations of Philosophy (2006) and the co-author of Nietzsche’s Perspectivism (2000). He was recently Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, School for Advanced Study, University of London, and is the author of numerous articles on relativism in journals such as Mind, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Synthese.

Out of Print
By: Steven D Hales(Editor)
662 pages, b/w illustrations
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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"A survey of relativist ideas in all areas of philosophy, by an impressive line-up of contributors well-versed in the debates behind their current revival."
– François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris

"Himself a substantial contributor to the area, Steve Hales has now put together an excellent companion for those who wish to enter it. The topography is highly varied, and this resource maps it all with high definition."
– Ernest Sosa, Rutgers University

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