Relative Truth is a unique and wide-ranging collection of high quality essays in this quickly developing field.... Relative Truth is a well-organised and challenging collection. It significantly advances the contemporary discussion of relativism.
Paul McCallion, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
The truth of an utterance depends on various factors. Usually these factors are assumed to be: the meaning of the sentence uttered, the context in which the utterance was made, and the way things are in the world. Recently, however, a number of cases have been discussed where there seems to be reason to think that the truth of an utterance is not yet fully determined by these three factors, and that truth must therefore depend on a further factor. The most prominent examples include utterances about values, utterances attributing knowledge, utterances that state that something is probable or epistemically possible, and utterances about the contingent future. In these cases, some have argued, the standard picture needs to be modified to admit extra truth-determining factors, and there is further controversy about the exact role of any such extra factors.
With contributions from some of the key figures in the contemporary debate on relativism this book is about a topic that is the focus of much traditional and current interest: whether truth is relative to standards of taste, values, or subjective informational states. It is an issue in the philosophy of language, but one with important connections to other areas of philosophy, such as meta-ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology.
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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. Specially written papers by leading figures, together with a helpful introduction, make this book the starting-point for future work.
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I: RELATIVISM ELABORATED; II: THE METAPHYISCAL SIGNIFICANCE OF RELATIVISM; III: OBJECTIONS TO RELATIVISM; IV: ALTERNATIVES TO RELATIVISM
Relative Truth is a unique and wide-ranging collection of high quality essays in this quickly developing field.... Relative Truth is a well-organised and challenging collection. It significantly advances the contemporary discussion of relativism.
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The hottest topic in philosophy
The only comprehensive volume on the recent debate about relativism
Contains contributions by leading philosophers and some of the key figures in the debate on this particular topic
Provides a broad view of the topic and its relevance
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Max Kölbel received his PhD from King's College London in 1997. He has taught philosophy at UNAM in México City, at Swansea, Cambridge, and since 2001 at the University of Birmingham. From 2008, he will be ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona.
; Manuel García-Carpintero received his PhD from the University of Barcelona in 1988 and has taught in the department of Lògica, Història i Filosofia there since 1984.
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The hottest topic in philosophy
The only comprehensive volume on the recent debate about relativism
Contains contributions by leading philosophers and some of the key figures in the debate on this particular topic
Provides a broad view of the topic and its relevance
Les mer
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780199234943
Publisert
2008
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
511 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
157 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
326