Relative truth / edited by Manuel García-Carpintero and Max Kölbel.

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.

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Other Authors: García-Carpintero, Manuel, Kölbel, Max
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • Motivations for relativism / Max Kölbel
  • Moderate relativism / François Recanati
  • Semantic relativism and the logic of indexicals / Stefano Predelli and Isidora Stojanovic
  • Truth in the garden of forking paths / John MacFarlane
  • Margins for error in context / Denis Bonnay and Paul Egré
  • Relativism, vagueness and what is said / Manuel García-Carpintero
  • Relativism about truth itself : haphazard thoughts about the very idea / Crispin Wright
  • Three forms of truth relativism / Iris Einheuser
  • Assertion, belief and disagreement : a problem for truth-relativism / Sebastiano Moruzzi
  • Frege, relativism and faultless disagreement / Sven Rosenkranz
  • Epistemic modals and correct disagreement / Richard Dietz
  • Content relativism and semantic blindness / Herman Cappelen
  • Faultless or disagreement / Andrea Iacona
  • Presuppositions of commonality : an indexical relativist account of disagreement / Dan López de Sa.