A Companion to Relativism

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4051-9021-3
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell

Buch, Englisch, 680 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 256 mm, Gewicht: 1330 g

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy

A Companion to Relativism presents original contributions from leading scholars that address the latest thinking on the role of relativism in the philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of science, logic, and metaphysics.
* Features original contributions from many of the leading figures working on various aspects of relativism
* Presents a substantial, broad range of current thinking about relativism
* Addresses relativism from many of the major subfields of philosophy, including philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of science, logic, and metaphysics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hales, Steven D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Characterizing Relativism

Part II: Truth and Language

Part III: Epistemic Relativism

Part IV: Moral Relativism

Part V: Relativism in the Philosophy of Science

Part VI: Logical, Mathematical, and Ontological Relativism

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Steven D. Hales is Professor of Philosophy at Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Relativism and the Foundations of Philosophy (2006) and the co-author of Nietzsche's Perspectivism (2000). He was recently Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, School for Advanced Study, University of London, and is the author of numerous articles on relativism in journals such as Mind, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Synthese.