Relative Truth
Paul McCallion,
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews,
Apr 21, 2009
This is the sort of work that reflects my own views, at least to some degree. There is much in this volume I would agree with, though I am less interested in what seems to me to be trivial (and obvious) relativism, such as in matters of taste or judgements of beauty. The notion of 'linguistic evidence for relativism' is a bit interesting. But basically, this book is relevant because it calls attention to the "current guise" of relativism as a "thesis that propositional truth is relative not only to a world (as orthodoxy would have it) but also to some non-standard parameter such as a perspective, standard of taste, context of assessment and so on." The book is by Manuel Garcia-Carpintero and Max Kolbel (eds.).
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