A Companion to Relativism

A Companion to Relativism
Author: Steven D. Hales
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 960
Release: 2011-03-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1444392484
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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

Moral Relativism

Moral Relativism
Author: Paul K. Moser
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2001
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780195131307
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This volume is devoted solely to the topic of moral relativism. The 19 contemporary selections are nontechnical and fall under five main headings which include general issues of moral relativism, moral diversity, the coherence of moral relativism, and relativism, realism, and rationality.

A Companion to Applied Philosophy

A Companion to Applied Philosophy
Author: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 664
Release: 2016-09-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1118869125
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Applied philosophy has been a growing area of research for the last 40 years. Until now, however, almost all of this research has been centered around the field of ethics. A Companion to Applied Philosophy breaks new ground, demonstrating that all areasof philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind, can be applied, and are relevant to questions of everyday life. This perennial topic in philosophy provides an overview of these various applied philosophy developments, highlighting similarities and differences between various areas of applied philosophy, and examining the very nature of this topic. It is an area to which many of the towering figures in the history of philosophy have contributed, and this timely Companion demonstrates how various historical contributions are actually contributions within applied philosophy, even if they are not traditionally seen as such. The Companion contains 42 essays covering major areas of philosophy; the articles themselves are all original contributions to the literature and represent the state of the art on this topic, as well as offering a map to the current debates.

A Companion to the Philosophy of Science

A Companion to the Philosophy of Science
Author: W. H. Newton-Smith
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 596
Release: 2001-10-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780631230205
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Unmatched in the quality of its world-renowned contributors, this companion serves as both a course text and a reference book across the broad spectrum of issues of concern to the philosophy of science.

Relativism

Relativism
Author: Maria Baghramian
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2019-09-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000691101
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Relativism, an ancient philosophical doctrine, is once again a topic of heated debate. In this book, Maria Baghramian and Annalisa Coliva present the recent arguments for and against various forms of relativism. The first two chapters introduce the conceptual and historical contours of relativism. These are followed by critical investigations of relativism about truth, conceptual relativism, epistemic relativism, and moral relativism. The concluding chapter asks whether it is possible to make sense of relativism as a philosophical thesis. The book introduces readers to the main types of relativism and the arguments in their favor. It also goes beyond the expository material to engage in more detailed critical responses to the key positions and authors under discussion. Including chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary, Relativism is essential reading for students of philosophy as well as those in related disciplines where relativism is studied, such as anthropology, sociology, and politics.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Relativism

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Relativism
Author: Martin Kusch
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 704
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1351052284
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Relativism can be found in all philosophical traditions and subfields of philosophy. It is also a central idea in the social sciences, the humanities, religion and politics. This is the first volume to map relativistic motifs in all areas of philosophy, synchronically and diachronically. It thereby provides essential intellectual tools for thinking about contemporary issues like cultural diversity, the plurality of the sciences, or the scope of moral values. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Relativism is an outstanding major reference source on this fundamental topic. The 57 chapters by a team of international contributors are divided into nine parts: Relativism in non-Western philosophical traditions Relativism in Western philosophical traditions Relativism in ethics Relativism in political and legal philosophy Relativism in epistemology Relativism in metaphysics Relativism in philosophy of science Relativism in philosophy of language and mind Relativism in other areas of philosophy. Essential reading for students and researchers in all branches of philosophy, this handbook will also be of interest to those in related subjects such as politics, religion, sociology, cultural studies and literature.

Relativism

Relativism
Author: Francis J. Beckwith
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1998-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0801058066
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A critique of moral relativism, the belief that there exists no objective moral standards that apply to every place, person, and time.

A Companion to Moral Anthropology

A Companion to Moral Anthropology
Author: Didier Fassin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2015-01-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1118959507
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A Companion to Moral Anthropology is the first collective consideration of the anthropological dimensions of morals, morality, and ethics. Original essays by international experts explore the various currents, approaches, and issues in this important new discipline, examining topics such as the ethnography of moralities, the study of moral subjectivities, and the exploration of moral economies. Investigates the central legacies of moral anthropology, the formation of moral facts and values, the context of local moralities, and the frontiers between moralities, politics, humanitarianism Features contributions from pioneers in the field of moral anthropology, as well as international experts in related fields such as moral philosophy, moral psychology, evolutionary biology and neuroethics

A Companion to Rawls

A Companion to Rawls
Author: Jon Mandle
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 615
Release: 2015-11-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1119144566
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Wide ranging and up to date, this is the single most comprehensive treatment of the most influential political philosopher of the 20th century, John Rawls. An unprecedented survey that reflects the surge of Rawls scholarship since his death, and the lively debates that have emerged from his work Features an outstanding list of contributors, including senior as well as “next generation” Rawls scholars Provides careful, textually informed exegesis and well-developed critical commentary across all areas of his work, including non-Rawlsian perspectives Includes discussion of new material, covering Rawls’s work from the newly published undergraduate thesis to the final writings on public reason and the law of peoples Covers Rawls’s moral and political philosophy, his distinctive methodological commitments, and his relationships to the history of moral and political philosophy and to jurisprudence and the social sciences Includes discussion of his monumental 1971 book, A Theory of Justice, which is often credited as having revitalized political philosophy

Relative Truth

Relative Truth
Author: Manuel García-Carpintero
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2008-08-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199234957
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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. Specially written papers by leading figures, together with a helpful introduction, make this book the starting-point for future work.