Relative truth
By: edited by Manuel Garcia-Carpintero and Max Kölbel.
Contributors: García-Carpintero, Manuel.; Kölbel, Max.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780199234950; 9780199234943
Subjects: Relativity; Truth
Description: 'Relative Truth' examines a question which has become the focus of one of the liveliest debates in philosophy: whether truth is relative to standards of taste, values, or subjective informational states.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Motivations for relativism / Max Kolbel; title: Relativism elaborated; title: Moderate relativism / Francois Recanati; title: Semantic relativism and the logic of indexicals / Stefano Predelli and Isidora Stojanovic; title: Truth in the garden of forking paths / John MacFarlane; title: Margins for error in context / Denis Bonnay and Paul EgrE; title: Relativism, vagueness and what is said / Manuel GarcIa-Carpintero; title: The metaphysical significance of relativism; title: Relativism about truth itself : haphazard thoughts about the very idea / Crispin Wright; title: Three forms of truth-relativism / Iris Einheuser; title: Objections to relativism; title: Assertion, belief and disagreement / Sebastiano Moruzzi; title: Frege, relativism and faultless disagreement / Sven Rosenkranz; title: Epistemic modals and correct disagreement / Richard Dietz; title: Alternatives to relativism; title: Content relativism and semantic blindness / Herman Cappelen; title: Faultless or disagreement / Andrea Iacona; title: Presuppositions of commonality : an indexical relativist account of disagreement / Dan LOpez de Sa.