Hales Steven D. (ed.) A Companion to Relativism

Chichester, U.K.; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 680 p. — (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) — ISBN: 978-1-4051-9021-3A 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.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
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
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
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
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
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