Relative truth / edited by Manuel Garcia-Carpintero and Max Kolbel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

García-Carpintero, Manuel, editor.

Kölbel, Max, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Relativity.

Truth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The truth of an utterance depends on various factors. Usually these factors are assumed to be: the meaning of the sentence uttered; the context in which the utterance was made; and the way things are in the world. Recently however, a number of cases have been discussed where there seems to be reason to think that the truth of an utterance is not yet fully determined by these three factors, and that truth must therefore depend on a further factor. The most prominent examples include utterances about values, utterances attributing knowledge, utterances which state that something is probable or epistemically possible, and utterances about the contingent future. In these cases, some have argued, the standard picture needs to be modified to admit extra truth-determining factors, and there is further controversy about the exact role of any such extra factors. All the essays in this volume are about this issue. It is a narrowly defined issue in the philosophy of language, but one with important connections to other areas of philosophy, such as metaethics, metaphysics, and epistemology."-- Title details screen.

Contents:

Motivations for relativism / Max Kölbel

Moderate relativism / François 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 Egré

Relativism, vagueness and what is said / Manuel García-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 López de Sa.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-923494-9

1-281-82558-1

9786611825584

0-19-155297-6

OCLC:

458705835