Relative truth
by
 
Garcâia-Carpintero, Manuel.

Title
Relative truth

Author
Garcâia-Carpintero, Manuel.

ISBN
9780199234950
 
9780199234943

Publication Information
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Physical Description
314 p. ; 25 cm.

Contents
Motivations for relativism / Max Kolbel -- Moderate relativism / Francois 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 Egre -- Relativism, vagueness and what is said / Manuel Garcia-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 Lopez de Sa.

Abstract
'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.

Subject Term
Relativity.
 
Truth.

Added Author
Garcâia-Carpintero, Manuel.
 
Kèolbel, Max.


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