Ebook: A Companion to Relativism

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.;Part I. Characterizing Relativism: Global relativism and self-refutation / Max Kölbel -- Relativism requires alternative, not disagreement or relative truth / Carol Rovane -- Three kinds of relativism / Paul Boghossian -- Varieties of relativism and the reach of reason / Michael Krausz -- Part II. Truth and Language: Truth relativism and truth pluralism / Michael P. Lynch; The many relativisms: index, context, and beyond / Dan López de Sa -- Variation in intuitions about references and ontological disagreements / Edouard Machery -- Centered worlds and the content of perception / Berit Brogaard -- Conceptual relativism / Kenneth A. Taylor -- The limits of relativism in the late Wittgenstein / Patricia Hanna and Bernard Harrison -- Part III. Epistemic Relativism: Epistemological relativism: arguments pro and con / Harvey Siegel -- Relativism about epistemic modals / Andy Egan -- Relativism and confirmation theory / Igor Douven -- Epistemic relativism, epistemic incommensurability, and Wittgensteinian epistemology / Duncan Pritchard -- Relativism and contextualism / Patrick Rysiew -- Part IV. Moral Relativism: Relativism in contemporary liberal political philosophy / Graham M. Long -- Secularism, liberalism, and relativism / Akeel Bilgrami -- Moral relativism and moral psychology / Christian B. Miller -- Bare bones moral realism and the objections from relativism / Mark Balaguer -- Virtue ethics and moral relativism / Christopher W. Gowans -- Relativist explanations of interpersonal and group disagreement / David B. Wong -- Part V. Relativism in the Philosophy of Science: Relativism and the sociology of scientific knowledge / David Bloor -- Incommensurability and theory change / Howard Sankey -- Thomas Kuhn's relativistic legacy / Alexander Bird -- Anti-realism and relativism / Christopher Norris -- Part VI. Logical, Mathematical, and Ontological Relativism: Horror contradictions / Johan van Benthem -- Varieties or pluralism and relativism for logic / Steward Shapiro -- Relativism in set theory and mathematics / Otávio Bueno -- Putnam's model-theoretic argument / Maximillian de Gaynesford -- Quine's ontological relativity / Gary L. Hardcastle -- Carving up a reality in which there are no joints / Crawford L. Elder.