Companion to Relativism

Steven D. Hales is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Relativism and the Foundations of Philosophy and co-author of Nietzsche's Perspectivism, as well as numerous articles on relativism. His most recent book is The Myth of Luck: Philosophy, Fate, and Fortune. He has been a visiting professor at the universities of Cambridge, Turin, Edinburgh, and London.

• Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xiIntroduction 1Part I Characterizing Relativism 91 Global Relativism and Self-Refutation 11Max Kölbel2 Relativism Requires Alternatives, Not Disagreement or Relative Truth 31Carol Rovane3 Three Kinds of Relativism 53Paul Boghossian4 Varieties of Relativism and the Reach of Reasons 70Michael KrauszPart II Truth and Language 855 Truth Relativism and Truth Pluralism 87Michael P. Lynch6 The Many Relativisms: Index, Context, and Beyond 102Dan López de Sa7 Variation in Intuitions about Reference and Ontological Disagreements 118Edouard Machery8 Centered Worlds and the Content of Perception 137Berit Brogaard9 Conceptual Relativism 159Kenneth A. Taylor10 The Limits of Relativism in the Late Wittgenstein 179Patricia Hanna and Bernard HarrisonPart III Epistemic Relativism 19911 Epistemological Relativism: Arguments Pro and Con 201Harvey Siegel12 Relativism About Epistemic Modals 219Andy Egan13 Relativism and Confi rmation Theory 242Igor Douven14 Epistemic Relativism, Epistemic Incommensurability, and Wittgensteinian Epistemology 266Duncan Pritchard15 Relativism and Contextualism 286Patrick RysiewPart IV Moral Relativism 30716 Relativism in Contemporary Liberal Political Philosophy 309Graham M. Long17 Secularism, Liberalism, and Relativism 326Akeel Bilgrami18 Moral Relativism and Moral Psychology 346Christian B. Miller19 Bare Bones Moral Realism and the Objections from Relativism 368Mark Balaguer20 Virtue Ethics and Moral Relativism 391Christopher W. Gowans21 Relativist Explanations of Interpersonal and Group Disagreement 411David B. WongPart V Relativism in the Philosophy of Science 43122 Relativism and the Sociology of Scientifi c Knowledge 433David Bloor23 Incommensurability and Theory Change 456Howard Sankey24 Thomas Kuhn’s Relativistic Legacy 475Alexander Bird25 Anti-Realism and Relativism 489Christopher NorrisPart VI Logical, Mathematical, and Ontological Relativism 50926 Horror Contradictionis 511Johan Van Benthem27 Varieties of Pluralism and Relativism for Logic 526Stewart Shapiro28 Relativism in Set Theory and Mathematics 553Otávio Bueno29 Putnam’s Model-Theoretic Argument 569Maximilian de Gaynesford30 Quine’s Ontological Relativity 588Gary L. Hardcastle31 Carving Up a Reality in Which There are no Joints 604Crawford L. ElderIndex 621