1st Edition

The Many Faces of Relativism

Edited By Maria Baghramian Copyright 2014
308 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

311 Pages
by Routledge

This book is a study of relativism as a dominant intellectual preoccupation of our time. Relativism asks how we are to find a way out of intractable differences of perspectives and disagreements in various domains. Standards of truth, rationality, and ethical right and wrong vary greatly and there are no universal criteria for adjudicating between them. In considering this problem, relativism... Read more

Introduction Maria Baghramian  Section 1: The Many Kinds of Relativism  1. Relativism, Standards and Aesthetic Judgements James O. Young  2. Relativism and our warrant for scientific theories Paul Faulkner  3. Indexical Relativism versus Genuine Relativism Max Kölbel  4. The Many Relativisms and the Question of Disagreement Dan López de Sa  5. How to Spell Out Genuine Relativism and How to Defend Indexical Relativism Max Kölbel  Section II: Motivating Relativism  6. Cross-cultural Understanding: its Philosophical and Anthropological Problems Christoph Jamme  7. Intuition, Revelation, and Relativism Steven D. Hales  8. The Untruth in Relativism Christopher A. Dustin  9. Relativism and Reflexivity Robert Lockie  10. Iterated Non-Refutation: Robert Lockie on Relativism Anders Tolland  11. Response to Anders Tolland's ‘Iterated Non-Refutation: Robert Lockie on Relativism’ Robert Lockie  Section III: Wittgenstein’s Relativism  12. Relativism and the Abolition of the Other Simon Blackburn  13. Wittgenstein and Relativism Paul O’Grady  14. Religion, Relativism, and Wittgenstein’s Naturalism Bob Plant  15. On Epistemic and Moral Certainty: A Wittgensteinian Approach Michael Kober  16. Filling Out the Picture: Wittgenstein on Differences and Alternatives Tracy Bowell

Biography

Maria Baghramian is a Professor of Philosophy and currently Head of School of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is also the co-director of the Cognitive Science Programme in UCD, the Chief Editor of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Her publications include Relativism (2004), Reading Putnam (2012) and Donald Davidson: Life and Words (2012).