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.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
|---|
| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168025520111 | 121 G216R 2008 | 1 |