A Companion to Relativism

A Companion to Relativism......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 13
Introduction......Page 15
Part I: Characterizing Relativism......Page 23
1: Global Relativism and Self-Refutation......Page 25
2: Relativism Requires Alternatives, Not Disagreement or Relative Truth......Page 45
3: Three Kinds of Relativism......Page 67
4: Varieties of Relativism and the Reach of Reasons......Page 84
Part II: Truth and Language......Page 99
5: Truth Relativism and Truth Pluralism......Page 101
6: The Many Relativisms: Index, Context, and Beyond......Page 116
7: Variation in Intuitions about Reference and Ontological Disagreements......Page 132
8: Centered Worlds and the Content of Perception......Page 151
9: Conceptual Relativism......Page 173
10: The Limits of Relativism in the Late Wittgenstein......Page 193
Part III: Epistemic Relativism......Page 213
11: Epistemological Relativism: Arguments Pro and Con......Page 215
12: Relativism About Epistemic Modals......Page 233
13: Relativism and Confirmation Theory......Page 256
14: Epistemic Relativism, Epistemic Incommensurability, and Wittgensteinian Epistemology......Page 280
15: Relativism and Contextualism......Page 300
Part IV: Moral Relativism......Page 321
16: Relativism in Contemporary Liberal Political Philosophy......Page 323
17: Secularism, Liberalism, and Relativism......Page 340
18: Moral Relativism and Moral Psychology......Page 360
19: Bare Bones Moral Realism and the Objections from Relativism......Page 382
20: Virtue Ethics and Moral Relativism......Page 405
21: Relativist Explanations of Interpersonal and Group Disagreement......Page 425
Part V: Relativism in the Philosophy of Science......Page 445
22: Relativism and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge......Page 447
23: Incommensurability and Theory Change......Page 470
24: Thomas Kuhn’s Relativistic Legacy......Page 489
25: Anti-Realism and Relativism......Page 503
Part VI: Logical, Mathematical, and Ontological Relativism......Page 523
26: Horror Contradictionis......Page 525
27: Varieties of Pluralism and Relativism for Logic......Page 540
28: Relativism in Set Theory and Mathematics......Page 567
29: Putnam’s Model-Theoretic Argument......Page 583
30: Quine’s Ontological Relativity......Page 602
31: Carving Up a Reality in which There Are No Joints......Page 618
Index......Page 635