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List of contents
Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I Characterizing Relativism 9 1 Global Relativism and Self-Refutation 11
Max Kölbel 2 Relativism Requires Alternatives, Not Disagreement or Relative Truth 31
Carol Rovane 3 Three Kinds of Relativism 53
Paul Boghossian 4 Varieties of Relativism and the Reach of Reasons 70
Michael Krausz Part II Truth and Language 85 5 Truth Relativism and Truth Pluralism 87
Michael P. Lynch 6 The Many Relativisms: Index, Context, and Beyond 102
Dan López de Sa 7 Variation in Intuitions about Reference and Ontological Disagreements 118
Edouard Machery 8 Centered Worlds and the Content of Perception 137
Berit Brogaard 9 Conceptual Relativism 159
Kenneth A. Taylor 10 The Limits of Relativism in the Late Wittgenstein 179
Patricia Hanna and Bernard Harrison Part III Epistemic Relativism 199 11 Epistemological Relativism: Arguments Pro and Con 201
Harvey Siegel 12 Relativism About Epistemic Modals 219
Andy Egan 13 Relativism and Confi rmation Theory 242
Igor Douven 14 Epistemic Relativism, Epistemic Incommensurability, and Wittgensteinian Epistemology 266
Duncan Pritchard 15 Relativism and Contextualism 286
Patrick Rysiew Part IV Moral Relativism 307 16 Relativism in Contemporary Liberal Political Philosophy 309
Graham M. Long 17 Secularism, Liberalism, and Relativism 326
Akeel Bilgrami 18 Moral Relativism and Moral Psychology 346
Christian B. Miller 19 Bare Bones Moral Realism and the Objections from Relativism 368
Mark Balaguer 20 Virtue Ethics and Moral Relativism 391
Christopher W. Gowans 21 Relativist Explanations of Interpersonal and Group Disagreement 411
David B. Wong Part V Relativism in the Philosophy of Science 431 22 Relativism and the Sociology of Scientifi c Knowledge 433
David Bloor 23 Incommensurability and Theory Change 456
Howard Sankey 24 Thomas Kuhn's Relativistic Legacy 475
Alexander Bird 25 Anti-Realism and Relativism 489
Christopher Norris Part VI Logical, Mathematical, and Ontological Relativism 509 26 Horror Contradictionis 511
Johan Van Benthem 27 Varieties of Pluralism and Relativism for Logic 526
Stewart Shapiro 28 Relativism in Set Theory and Mathematics 553
Otávio Bueno 29 Putnam's Model-Theoretic Argument 569
Maximilian de Gaynesford 30 Quine's Ontological Relativity 588
Gary L. Hardcastle 31 Carving Up a Reality in Which There are no Joints 604
Crawford L. Elder Index 621
About the author
Steven D. Hales is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of
Relativism and the Foundations of Philosophy and co-author of
Nietzsche's Perspectivism, as well as numerous articles on relativism. His most recent book is
The Myth of Luck: Philosophy, Fate, and Fortune. He has been a visiting professor at the universities of Cambridge, Turin, Edinburgh, and London.
