A Companion to Relativism

by Hales, Steven D.

• ISBN13: 9781405190213
• ISBN10: 1405190213
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-01-18
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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

Author 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.

Table of Contents

[This is still just a rough grouping, since particular authors need to be lined up with particular topics/chapters under each section.].Global relativism. Max K_lbel, Thomas Bennigson, Hilary Putnam, Tomoji Shogenji, Chris Swoyer, Thomas Nagel, Akeel Bilgrami, Michael Krausz.Relativism and Theories of Truth. Michael Lynch, Paul Boghossian, Maria Baghramian, Paul O'Grady, Frederick Schmitt, Robert Kirk, Jack Meiland, Huw Price.Semantic relativism. John MacFarlane, Stephen Stich, Brian Weatherson, John Hawthorne, Brit Brogaard.Moral relativism. David Wong, Gilbert Harman, Peter Unger, Alasdair McIntyre, Michelle Moody-Adams, Judith Thomson, Jamie Dreier, Michael Huemer, Hugh LaFollette, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Adrian Moore, Graham Long.Epistemic relativism. Crispin Wright, Susan Haack, Harvey Siegel, Keith DeRose, Duncan Pritchard, Steven Luper, Andy Egan, Timothy Mosteller, Mark Richard.Relativism and philosophy of science. Larry Laudan, Michael Devitt, Miriam Solomon, Philip Kitcher, James McAllister, Gerald Doppelt, Rom Harr_, Howard Sankey.Relativism and the philosophy of logic and mathematics. Otfvio Bueno, Jim Harris, Achille Varzi, Hartry Field, Graham Priest, Kit Fine