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Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
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Our thoughts about the world are clearly influenced by such things as point of view, temperament, past experience and culture. However, some thinkers go much further and argue that everything that exists depends on us, arguing that 'even reality is relative'. Can we accept such a claim in the face of events such as floods and other natural disasters or events seemingly beyond our control?... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Truth; Chapter 3 Relative to Us?; Chapter 4 Words and World: Wittgenstein; Chapter 5 Words and World: Quine; Chapter 6 Language-Games V. Realism; Chapter 7 Foundations for Knowledge?; Chapter 8 Dummett’s Anti-Realism; Chapter 9 Rorty’s ‘Postmodern’ Pragmatism; Chapter 10 Science and the World of Everyday Life; Chapter 11 A Strong Realism;
Biography
Robert Kirk is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham.
'Robert Kirk's short, readable, and engaging book provides an excellent introduction to the considerations that motivate relativism and the reasons they are not convincing' - Philosophical Review
