Relativism

By: Paul O'Grady

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Paperback | 30 September 2002 | Edition Number 1

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The issue of relativism looms large in many contemporary discussions of knowledge, reality, society, religion, culture and gender. Is truth relative? To what extent is knowledge dependent on context? Are there different logics? Do different cultures and societies see the world differently? And is reality itself something that is constructed? This book offers a path through these debates. O''Grady begins by clarifying what exactly relativism is and how it differs from scepticism and pluralism. He then examines five main types of cognitive relativism: alethic relativism, logical relativism, ontological relativism; epistemological relativism, and relativism about rationality. Each is clearly distinguised and the arguments for and against each are assessed. O''Grady offers a welcome survey of recent debates, engaging with the work of Davidson, Devitt, Kuhn, Putnam, Quine, Rorty, Searle, Winch and Wittgenstein, among others, and he offers a distinct position of his own on this hotly contested issue.

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"A well-articulated introduction and survey to the literature while also engaging the sophisticate with well-informed and contentious positions on current debates ... a splendid and illuminating balancing act." - Gnosis "This lucid, rigorous, judicious study is to be recommended to those postmodern theorists for whom Quine is a cure for malaria." - Terry Eagleton, University of Manchester

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