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Relative truth [electronic resource] / edited by Manuel García-Carpintero and Max Kölbel

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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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1 online resource (x, 314 pages)
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García-Carpintero, Manuel and Kölbel, Max
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: "Motivations for Relativism" / Max Kobel -- I.Relativism Elaborated -- 2.Moderate Relativism / Francois Recanati -- 3.Semantic Relativism and the Logic of Indexicals / Isidora Stojanovic / Stefano Predelli -- 4.Truth in the Garden of Forking Paths / John MacFarlane -- 5.Margins for Error in Context / Denis Bonnay / Paul Egre -- 6.Relativism, Vagueness and What Is Said / Manuel Garcia-Carpintero -- II.The Metaphyiscal Significance of Relativism -- 7.Relativism about Truth Itself: Haphazard Thoughts about the Very Idea / Crispin Wright -- 8.Three Forms of Truth Relativism / Iris Einheuser -- III.Objections to Relativism -- 9.Assertion, Belief and Disagreement / Sebastiano Moruzzi -- 10.Frege, Relativism and Faultless Disagreement / Sven Rosenkranz -- 11.Epistemic Modals and Correct Disagreement / Richard Dietz -- IV.Alternatives to Relativism -- 12.Content Relativism / Herman Cappelen -- 13.Faultless or Disagreement / Andrea Iacona -- 14.Presuppositions of Commonality: an Indexical Relativist Account of Disagreement / Dan Lopez de Sa.
Summary
'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.
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9780191715846 (ebook)
0191715840 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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