Assessment Sensitivity - Relative Truth and Its Applications

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List of contents

• 1.: A Taste of Relativism


• I: Foundations


• 2: The Standard Objections


• 3: Assessment Sensitivity


• 4: Propositions


• 5: Making Sense of Relative Truth


• 6: Disagreement


• II: APPLICATIONS


• 7: Tasty


• 8: Knows


• 9: Tomorrow


• 10: Might


• 11: Ought


• 12: The Rationality of Relativism


• References


• Index

About the author

John MacFarlane received his B.A. in Philosophy from Harvard College, in addition to an MA in Classics and a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2000 he took up a position at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and a member of the Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science. His work has ranged widely over a number of philosophical topics, including the history of philosophy, the philosophy of logic and mathematics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language.

Summary

John MacFarlane explores how we might make sense of the idea that truth is relative. He provides new, satisfying accounts of parts of our thought and talk that have resisted traditional methods of analysis, including what we mean when we talk about what is tasty, what we know, what will happen, what might be the case, and what we ought to do.

Additional text

MacFarlanes book is a fascinating book, highly recommended to any philosopher interested in philosophy of language, formal semantics, epistemology, meta-ethics and beyond. It will serve as a springboard for future work both about relativism, as well as particular domains of application.

Product details

• Authors: John Macfarlane, John (University of California Macfarlane, MacFarlane John
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.04.2014
• EAN: 9780199682751
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968275-1
• No. of pages: 362
• Series: Context & Content; Context & Content; Context and Content
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge