Realism and Relativism, Volume 12

by Sosa, Ernest; Villanueva, Enrique

• ISBN13: 9780631233848
• ISBN10: 0631233849
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-17
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume gathers papers by many of the best-known philosophers now at work on issues of realism and relativism across the field of philosophy. The result is representative of the best cutting-edge work in the area. Includes work both on the ontology and epistemology of the normative as well as on more general metaphysical and epistemological issues of relativism and realism. Essays include discussions of relativism and the first-person perspective, underdetermination and realism, and mathematical realism and epistemic relativism, plus many other points of reflection.

Author Biography

Ernest Sosa is a Professor of Philosophy at Brown University and Rutgers University. He is author of Knowledge in Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 1991) and of papers in metaphysics and epistemology.

Enrique Villanueva is a Research Fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Juridicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He is author of papers and books in philosophy of mind and history of philosophy, and editor of Philosophical Issues from 1992 to 2000.

Table of Contents

I. Metaphysics and Logic
Realism and Relativism	1	(25)
Akeel Bilgrami
Underdetermination and Realism	26	(25)
Michael Devitt
Quantifier Variance and Realism	51	(23)
Eli Hirsch
Conceptual Relativity and Metaphysical Realism	74	(23)
Terry Horgan
Mark Timmons
Response-dependence without Tears	97	(21)
Frank Jackson
Philip Pettit
Is There a True Metaphysics of Material Objects?	118	(28)
Alan Sidelle
Knowledge of the World	146	(30)
Galen Strawson
The Number of Things	176	(21)
Peter Van Inwagen
On Logical Relativity	197	(23)
Achille C. Varzi
Abstract Objects: A Case Study	220	(21)
Stephen Yablo
II. Metaethics
Meta-Ethics and Normative Commitment	241	(23)
James Dreier
Earning the Right to Realism or Relativism in Ethics	264	(22)
Carol Rovane
Moral Realism and Indeterminacy	286	(19)
Stephen Schiffer
Moral Relativity and Intuitionism	305	(24)
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Exploring the Implications of the Dispositional Theory of Value	329	(19)
Michael Smith
Contributors	348