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Essays on Relativism - 2001-2021 (Hardcover)
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The classical Protagorean idea that the idea of absolute truth is
an illusion — that there is only 'your truth' and 'my truth', or
perhaps 'our truth' and 'their truth' — was until quite recently
widely regarded as thoroughly and deservedly discredited. However
there has recently been a sea change among professional
philosophers in the analytical tradition, with a number of
distinguished specialists arguing that, when suitably disciplined
and refined, relative truth can play a central and illuminating
role in the theory of the workings of a number of important regions
of thought and discourse. Crispin Wright has been a leading
protagonist in the resulting debates. The papers gathered here
chart the development of his ideas over the last two decades on
three interconnected sets of issues in which the renaissance of
relative truth has intensified interest: · the general metaphysics
of relativism and whether it has the resources to rebut the
traditional objections to it. · the significance of the
“standards-variability” phenomena that seem to afflict
ascriptions of knowledge and claims featuring epistemic 'mights'
and 'coulds'. · the challenge to find the best formulation of
anti-realism about certain areas of our thought and discourse —
taste, humour, or etiquette, perhaps, — in such a way as to make
sense of the intuitive idea that disagreement about matters within
these areas can be and often is “faultless”. The overall
tendency of the chapters is to call into question the claimed
theoretical advantages of 'New Age' relativism. As so often in
Philosophy, however, it is the journey rather than the destination
from which we learn.
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